AN ARMY of 30,000 "Nazi" raccoons is causing carnage across Germany - and EU red tape is torpedoing efforts to stop their population boom.

A German city on the frontline of the war has now suffered a massive blow - after plans to sterilise them were scrapped due to Eurocrat lawmakers.

The menacing raccoons are believed to have been first introduced to Germany by Hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo - the Nazi's secret police - during the 1930s.

The top Hitler ally brought them in as sport for huntsmen in German forests, and thought they could kick start a new fur industry.

But the crafty rodents slipped free in the ensuing chaos at the end of World War Two - leaving swarms of the bandit-masked raiders to spread across Europe .

Vast colonies of the bin-raiding scavengers

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