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Hitler’s pit bull, Sergeant Stubby the Boston terrier, & other dogs of war

November 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Many dogs worth remembering on Veteran’s Day “Cry, ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war,” wrote William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (1599), but the most famous dogs of war remain those of World War I––ironically a war in which dogs were not officially used by the militaries of any of the victorious Allied nations. […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Police & military, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Adolph Hitler, Jiggs, Merritt Clifton, Rin Tin Tin, Stubby

Hitler:  Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover,  by Rynn Berry

June 11, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Pythagorean Publishers (P.O. Box 8174, JAF Station,  New York,  NY 10116),  2004. 81 pages,  paperback.  $10.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Rynn Berry,  the late historical advisor to the North American Vegetarian Society,  who died on January 9,  2014 after collapsing during a New Year’s Eve jog in New York’s Central Park,  established his reputation as […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Austria, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Europe, Food, Germany, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Adolph Hitler, Boria Sax, Charlie Chaplin, Ian Kershaw, Joseph Goebbels, Merritt Clifton, Ronald Reagan

Animals In The Third Reich:  Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust  

June 11, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

by Boria Sax Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.,  (370 Lexington Ave.,  New York,  NY  10017),  2000. 206 pages,  paperback.  $19.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Hitler was a vegetarian,  probably in emulation of the composer Richard Wagner,   Boria Sax asserts,  but claims,  as vegetarian historian Rynn Berry and others have documented,  that “Hitler was probably […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Buddhism, Culture & Animals, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Lab animals, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Adolph Hitler, Merritt Clifton, Richard Craven, Rynn Berry, Sydney Coleman

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