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The first dogs registered as Leonbergers were born in 1846 and had many of the prized qualities of the breeds from which they were derived. [1] [2] The legend is that the dogs were bred to be an homage of the lion in the town crest [1] and coat-of-arms animal of Leonberg, the lion. [18]
In many cases, the horses were slaughtered by the German soldiers for eating purposes. [92] When the German army was ordered to abandon the Crimean Peninsula on May 8, 1944, Hitler ordered the slaughter of the 30,000 horses of the German army before the troops were abandoned so that they would not fall as booty into the hands of the Russians.
By the beginning of World War I, Germany had around 6,000 trained dogs, many of which were ambulance dogs. The German army called them ' Sanitätshunde ', [10] or 'medical dogs'. [2] [13] [14] The nation is estimated to have used a total of 30,000 dogs during the war, mainly as messengers and ambulance dogs. Of those, 7,000 were killed. [15]
The aid stations were occupied by 2,000 men, British, German and Dutch civilian casualties. [148] [149] Because many aid posts were in the front line, in homes taken over earlier in the battle, the odd situation was created where casualties were evacuated forward rather than rearwards. [150]
At one time the German Shepherd was the breed chosen almost exclusively to be used as a guide dog for the visually impaired. When formal guide dog training began in Switzerland in the 1920s under the leadership of Dorothy Eustis, all of the dogs trained were German Shepherd females. [60]
Statue of Hindenburg in front of the Victory Column in Berlin, 1919 Nail Book recording donations for nails hammered into a cross in Mannheim in 1916. Nail Men or Men of Nails (German: Nagelmänner) were a form of propaganda and fundraising for members of the armed forces and their dependents in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the German Empire in World War I.
Of the five major German attacks, just two were contested by RAF fighters; the British lost 16 fighters in nine patrols. German losses amounted to 11 Ju 87s destroyed or damaged. [85] On 30 May, Churchill received word that all British divisions were now behind the defensive lines, along with more than half of the French First Army. [79]
The Hundesprechschule Asra or Tiersprechschule Asra (Asra school for talking dogs or Asra school for talking animals) was an institution for performing dogs that existed in Leutenberg, Thuringia, Germany, from 1930 until near the end of World War II. The founder, Margarethe Schmidt taught her dogs a number of tricks, including vocal expression ...