Published May 24, 2011 | FoxNews.com

A new report reveals that Nazis tried to train dogs to talk, read and spell 
during World War II in an attempt to build an army of 'fearsome' speaking 
dogs, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Adolf Hitler created a special dog school in the 1930s to teach the canines
to  talk, and apparently it worked, according to the report.
One dog allegedly uttered the words "Mein Fuhrer" when asked who Hitler was 
and another "spoke" by tapping the letters of the alphabet with its paws.
The "Wooffan SS" experiment was uncovered by Dr. Jan Bondeson, a senior 
lecturer at Cardiff University.
"There were some very strange experiments going on in wartime Germany with 
regard to the dog-human communication," Bondeson told the Daily Telegraph.
"Hitler was himself interested in the prospect of using educated dogs in the 
war effort, and he advised representatives of the German army to study their 
usefulness in the field," he continued.
According to the report, one of the dogs speculated about religion, learned 
foreign languages and wrote poetry.
he dog school was based in Leutenburg and was led by headmistress Margarethe 
Schmitt. The school continued throughout World War II.


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