"I had a dog that had no nose!"
"How did he smell?"
"Terrible!"
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/hitler'sdoggie.htm
According to Furzarsch's account it was a chance remark - a silly thoughtless joke - that Heidegger made which put a stop to his meteoritic rise in the Nazi hierarchy.
Furzarsch reports that the pint-size philosopher Heidegger once told a group of colleagues that Hitler had once commented thus to a group of Romanian fascists:
'Mein Hund hat keine Nase.'
'Wie riecht er? asked one of the Romanian visitors politely.
'Schrecklich,' laughed Hitler.
Translation:
Hitler: "My dog has no nose."
A Romanian: "How does it smell?"
Hitler: "Terrible."
According to Furzarsch this got back to the dog-lover Hitler who immediately ordered that Heidegger should tender his resignation as rector.
And so apparently ends all the speculation, about whether Heidegger actually did resign his high position because he became disenchanted with the party, or that his activities as a secret liberalising mole burrowing into and undermining the racial obsessions of his party colleagues was proving to be fruitless, or that he suddenly decided that the writings of the mad poet Hoelderlin were of more import that the mad dictator Hitler, or that Elfride rang the Gestapo and reported her husband's affair with a Jewish teenager etc., etc. - all these guesses were wrong.
It was therefore all down to an insensitive joke that Heidegger made about Blondie, [whose nose had been half-bitten off by one of the guard dogs at Berchtesgaden - which was later hung with piano-wire over the heavily fortified entrance-gate as a warning to other dogs.] In fact, Hitler's Blondie didn't attend his funeral, though I'm sure she would have -- if her master hadn't tested his cyanide pills on her first