Fear the mighty aurochs! Julius Caesar described them as beasts the size of elephants. The knights of German lore were said to have drunk from their gilded horns. Archaeologists believe that these enormous wild cows are the same ox-like creatures depicted in many prehistoric cave paintings. By the mid-1600s, the aurochs had gone extinct. Then Nazi eugenicists came along. Determined to create a master race of cattle (to be hunted, naturally, by a master race of humans), Third Reich scientists bred the largest and most aggressive cattle they could find. CONTINUED HERE : http://www.vocativ.com/culture/science/nazi-cattle/
