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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