How It All Goes Down
- This chapter is a brief biography of Lutz Heck and an overview of Nazi ideologies regarding eugenics and so-called animal purity.
- We suggest the title "What the Heck?"
- Heck is obsessed with resurrecting three "pure-blooded extinct species": tarpans, aurochsen, and the European bison.
- This obsession with animal purity starts seeping over into human races later on.
- Strangely, the Nazis are also "ardent animal lovers" (8.16), and a biologist "was once punished for not giving worms enough anesthesia during an experiment" (8.16).
- Have a heart, man. Earthworms have three.