Koko was a large anthropoid ape from the forests of former German Central West Africa. The intelligent animal, like many species of jungle dwelling apes and monkeys had internalised the principal of pack, herd or tribal leadership characteristic of many admirers of the pint-sized Philosopher of Fascism Martin Heidegger. After being left as an orphan (his gorilla parents having been shot by American tourists on a pre-war hunting holiday,) he was adopted by some German missionaries who brought him up like their own son.

Later at a Nazi jungle propaganda class for animals which his kindly benefactors had organised, the remarkably intelligent dasein animalis was so impressed after reading Heidegger's little-published and notoriously servile Toilettenpapier: "Follow the Fuhrer" that immediately after the outbreak of war he joined the specially formed Angriff-Regiment vom Daseinic Anthopoids von Größerem Deutschland, which was part of Rommel's Desert Army and distinguished himself at Tobruk by leading a full-frontal attack on an Australian gun position and being killed in the attempt.

Following the Philosopher of Fascism's orders and paid for out of Heidegger's own pocket, the plucky ape's bullet-ridden corpse was carried back to Berlin to be decorated by Hitler. It was then skinned and the pelt was stuffed by Ribbentrop's personal taxidermist. For reasons which have never been discovered, after removing the flesh, the man filled the pelt with compressed vegetable matter comprising of dried eidelweis, but reserved the lower anal area of the pelt with its ready-made access passage to stuff some unpublished manuscripts allegedly written by the cult-leader of a weird doctrine called phenomenology.

     The documents had been found hidden in a giant-sized black tefillin or phylactery in a study at Frieburg University that had formally been occupied by an old philosophical has-been called Edmund Husserl.  Considered something of a 'character,' he had become famous in the twenties for gazing at a teapot and ostentatiously and rather theatrically *bracketing out* the knowledge that it had been a wedding present from his uncle Hymie in an effort to get to know it as it 'truly existed' rather than as an entity carrying a metaphysical payload of things already known about it. One could be excused for feeling sorry for old uncle Hymie whose generosity doesn't seem to have been fully appreciated.

The loathsome Heidegger, who was Rector at the time the the philosophical soft-porn papers were discovered, had ordered that they be burned. A few years earlier, the fanatical  Nazi university boss and arch reifier Heidegger had barred the poor teapot-gazer Husserl out of the university library because the old man was a Jew. In spite of the fact that Husserl had been his former mentor,  Heidegger demanded that the old professor hand back his personal library key, which Husserl had in his possession as a priveledge for being a high-ranking member of the teaching staff.

For some years Koko's stuffed corporeal remains acted as a moth-earen  contraceptive dispenser and bullwhip-stand, and stood in the anti-chamber leading to Hitler's private quarters in the bunker in Berlin, but later when the olfactory evidence of the frequency, urgency and volume of Heidegger's diarrhoea attacks signalled that that the Russian advance was unstoppable, it was removed to Die Menschenaffe-Helden des Dritten Reiches, which was housed in Dem Museum vom Rechtschaffenen Daseins in Marburg, where it remained until the French occupation of that town.

As is well known, after lighting a bonfire of the inanities in his back yard the Nazi stooge Heidegger fled and took refuge in a mental home.

It is said that shortly afterwards the paper documents, which had been stuffed inside the pelt, were discovered and removed from the ape's anal passage and (unfortunately for western civilisation) were feloniously published in spite of the then current ban on philosophical pornography.

The skin was acquired by a French tank driver who sold it and is said to have ended up first as the material for an overcoat for the ex-Ugandan ruler Idi Amin, and then later, after the dictator had fled,  as a floor-rug on the infamous Hitler-admirer's blood-spattered tiled patio - but the report is merely anecdotal.