Cardiff University historian Jan Bondeson writes in his new book, "Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities," that the *** believed they could teach dogs to read, write, and talk: "In the 1920s, Germany had numerous 'new animal psychologists' who believed dogs were nearly as intelligent as humans, and capable of abstract thinking and communication." Hitler established an Animal Talking School, or Tier-Sprechschule, near Hanover which recruited dogs of promising intellect from all over Germany. The teachers claimed fantastic progress. They taught Don, a German pointer, to say "Hungry! Give me cakes" in German. Another dog could bark "Mein Fuhrer" when asked who Hitler was. An Airedale terrier named Rolf learned to spell, philosophized on religion, and learned foreign languages. The *** thought they could train these super-dogs to guard concentration camps and serve with Wehrmacht soldiers. It was just crazy enough to work. One shudders to think of the calamity that could have befallen our troops on D-Day had the beach head in Normandy been counter-attacked by a division of Nazi talking dog soldiers. My guess is that they would have been pretty freaked out unless they had the foresight to bring some tennis balls or squeaky toys to throw at any attacking talking dogs so as to distract them. The Allied powers were lucky that the *** drug their feet in developing their super-weapons and producing them en masse. You can't help but wonder how wrong things could have gone had there been swarms of Nazi V-2 missiles, jet fighters, atom bombs, and talking dogs. I, for one, would not want to live in a world where America was ruled by Nazi talking super dog warriors.
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