Career
By their work they created breeds of cattle and horse - later named "Heck cattle" and "Heck horse" respectively, after their creators - that are today seen as not sufficiently similar to their ancestors to be called a successful resurrection, although Heinz and Lutz Heck believed they had "resurrected" the breeds by their efforts. During World World War II Heck took part in the pillaging of Warsaw Zoo, stealing the most valuable animals and taking them to German zoos. The work of Lutz Heck features in a British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 documentary The Quest for the Aryan Cow, presented by the broadcaster and journalist Jon Ronson and produced by Beth O"Dea.
The documentary “Hitler"s Jurassic Monsters” presented by the National Geographic Channel deals with his work in the Bialowieza Forest.