What about those Nazis, eh? Their legacy lives on, in the form of...racoons.

Oh yes, my friends.

According to the Independent:

In 1934 (Herman Goering) came up with the idea of releasing a pair of raccoons into the wild, claiming he wanted to spice up the Third Reich's flora and fauna. Clearly, he was unaware of the havoc his decision would wreak almost three-quarters of a century later.

Today Germany is overrun with raccoons. While native German species, such as the wild cat, lynx and beaver, are now threatened with extinction, numbers of the black and white furry animals have soared in the 70 years since they were imported from North America. This week, wildlife experts estimated that Germany's raccoon population has hit one million...Kassel, which is north of Frankfurt and is set in wooded countryside, has been under siege by raccoons since the 1960s. Now the city has about 100 raccoons per hectare in the city - one every 100 square metres.

...But although raccoons can be legally hunted in Germany (as in the USA), and German hunting organisations are lobbying to put a bounty on raccoons' heads, the scientific view is that culling is not the solution. "They breed so fast, shooting them won't even make a small dent in the population," Dr Hohmann said. "The challenge is to educate the public not to feed them and how to live with them as Americans do."

Aha! It seems that, as with the Wisconsin Welfare to Work model, the Germans are clearly open to American models of raccoon management: "They breed so fast, shooting them won't even make a small dent in the population," Dr Hohmann said. "The challenge is to educate the public not to feed them and how to live with them as Americans do."

Welfare to Work for raccoons, in other words.