 The mutt named Jackie, seen here with Finnish businessman owner Tor Borg, was dubbed Hitler by Borg's wife as it raised its paw for the Nazi salute. The Nazis were so outraged they started an investigation |
Posted on 01/07/2011 8:31:05 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
Even by the standards of the Second World War, 1941 proved to be a somewhat eventful.
The U.S. joined the war after Pearl Harbor, Germany invaded the Soviet Union – and back in Berlin the Nazis were preoccupied with a Finnish dog called Jackie.
Papers just released by the German Foreign Office reveal Adolf Hitler’s regime was increasingly angry that the animal, which had been taught to raise its paw mimicking the Nazi salute, was mocking the Fuhrer.
The mutt named Jackie, seen here with Finnish businessman owner Tor Borg, was dubbed Hitler by Borg's wife as it raised its paw for the Nazi salute. The Nazis were so outraged they started an investigation |
Third Reich officials started a campaign against the dog’s owner, with the Foreign Office in Berlin commanding its diplomats in Nazi-friendly Finland to gather evidence on Jackie and even coming up with plans to destroy its owner’s pharmaceutical wholesale company.
Historians had not been aware of the strange footnote to the Nazi era before a researcher recently found 30 files containing correspondence and diplomatic cables in archives.
Author Klaus Hillenbrand, who examined the files for a German newpaper article to be published today, branded it ‘completely bizarre’, adding: ‘Just months before the Nazis launched their attack on the Soviet Union, they had nothing better to do than to obsess about this dog.’
Jackie’s owner was Tor Borg, a businessman from the Finnish city of Tampere. Mr Borg’s wife Josefine, a German citizen known for her anti-Nazi sentiments, dubbed the dog Hitler because of the strange way it raised its paw high in the air, like German soldiers saluting their Fuhrer.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Like the Hitler/dog scenario, Omar al-Baghdadi, then leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, offered a $100K for the killing of Lars Vilks, a Swedish artist who drew the 2007 cartoon in which Mohammed was portrayed as a dog.[ The Mohammed Cartoon Dust Has Not Settled Stratfor.com ^ | January 6, 2011]
Modoggie
Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen called the controversy Denmark's worst international crisis since World War II.
Perhaps I can obtain a Kenyan born dog and train him to SH*T in his own house and name him Obama. May be I can get a fat assed female bitch and name her ... never mind
Very good!
Dieser Hund ist ganz interessant.
Jackie-Hitler isn’t the only canine caricature of the dog-loving dictator.
Two years ago a German man was given a suspended sentence for training his dog, also called Hitler, to give the Nazi salute — a crime in Germany.
The pensioner was known to wear Nazi T-shirts and claimed his dog had been born on Hitler’s birthday.
But he disputed the claim that “Hitler” was giving the forbidden Nazi salute, saying it was “anatomically impossible for a dog to raise its paw that high”.
“Hitler” was eventually given a new home and renamed “Adi”.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0108/1224287043061.html
” My golden retriever does the same paw raising motion “
Many dogs do that. Don’t worry about her politics. Her President is you, and always will be.
I KNEW I had seen that face somewhere.
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