Nazi Raccoons

Via Jo Miller, an article on Deutsche Welle, Nazi Raccoons On March In Europe.

The story begins in 1934, when a breeder asked the Reich
Forestry Office, then led by future top Hitler aide Hermann Göring, for permission to release the masked-faced mammals to "enrich the local fauna" outside Kassel, a small city north of Frankfurt.

It's usually sinister-sounding enough to refer to such overbearing non-native species as "alien," but you know how everything has to be sensationalized nowadays...