Heck is a fascinating character – more fascinating than the zookeeper and his wife - and the film, directed by Niki Karo, thankfully, gives him the footage he deserves. ![]() By going back to hunting aurochs, Heck and his compatriots theorized, would enable Germans to reconnect with their roots and thus help in the Nazi propaganda. But he is known more for his obsession with bringing back aurochs - a type of primeval wild cattle which pure-blood Germans used to hunt for game - by selective breeding within existing domestic animals. ![]() The Zookeeper’s Wife is adapted from a book, which in turn based on Antonina’s diary, and Heck, in real life, who was a Nazi stooge, supplied lion cubs to officers and other more wilder animals to the zoos in Germany. ![]() ![]() Turns out that the Nazi idea of racial purity and Aryan aggressive masculinity extended to animals too we see feebler creatures like birds and monkeys being mercilessly killed.
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