The dire wolf is still extinct.

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21. Vielen Dank!

True story - one of my first professional experiences in Germany was while I was in grad school. I was visiting a museum (won't name the city) to look at some of their fossil crocs. The curator, who was an elderly man, continued to point me toward parts of the museum where "one of your bombs" did some damage.

I never spoke my thoughts aloud: I was born long after the war; you guys did sorta kinda start it; and I looked it up. The museum was hit during a nighttime bombing raid. That meant it was most likely a British bomb that did the damage.

I later learned that the curator's father had been some sort of official in the Nazi German government. The curator wasn't himself a Nazi - far from it, in fact - but appeared to have inherited some ill will toward Germany's former enemies. He wasn't at the museum when I visited a couple of years ago, so I'm sure he's long since retired.