We Europeans still have ancient traditions of dressing up as animals going back to the ice age, furries are just a corrupted ancestral blood memory of that time. In some rural places of Europe, you still find these ancient costume traditions that date back to the ice age, to the Wolf & Bear cults. Interestingly enough, wolves and bears are the two animals that are the most frequently mentioned in old European myths and folklore. From Little Red Riding Hood to the founding of Rome itself with Romulus and Remus nursing the she-wolf. The Germanic Berserkirs and Ulfhednar warriors weren't the only ones wearing bear and wolf fur, the Romans also had that custom, though in a more symbolic form in its military. There are many more examples of this to draw from, but as I said, the custom of dressing up as an animal and taking on another form still survives in pockets throughout Europe. The Bulgarian Kukeri, Romanian Bear-Dancers, Alpine Krampus, and Nordic Julebukk are all surviving bits of the same thing.

As for the pics posted, I'll explain the contests a bit.
>In Germanic mythology and tradition, the two holiest animals are the Bear and the Wolf.
>Germanics used to wear bear and wolf fur and had a close symbiotic relationship with both species.
>Carl Jung theorized that Germanics have something he called the "Wotan/Odin switch". Essentially Germanics will go full Barbarian when pushed hard enough.
>He thought the Third Reich and National Socialism were a result of this switch getting activated collectively within the German people.
>Coincidentally bear costumes were a huge fad during the Reich period.
>The Bear in the last pic is looking directly at Eva Braun, might even be Hitler himself.
>"Hiter' wouldn't do that"
>Hitler's codename was Wolf.
>Wolfsschanze - "Wolf's Lair"
>Werwolf - "Werewolf" guerillas.
>Donitz' Rudeltaktik - Reference to wolfpack tactics.
>Wolf references everywhere in the Reich.

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