THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: German ministries considered prosecuting dog's Finnish owner or ruining his business for insulting Hitler, wartime records reveal
Germany's Nazi government was so angry about a dog trained to imitate Hitler that it started an obsessive campaign against its Finnish owner, according to newly discovered documents.
In the middle of the second world war, the foreign office in Berlin commanded its diplomats in Nazi-friendly Finland to gather evidence on the dog, and even came up with plans to destroy the pharmaceutical wholesale company of the dog's owner.
Historians had not been aware of the strange footnote to the Nazi period before some 30 files containing parts of the correspondence and diplomatic cables were recently found by a researcher in the political archives of the German foreign office. >>> Associated Press | Friday, January 07, 2011
