🧵2/13 “Blondi was Adolf Hitler's German Shepherd, a gift as a puppy from Martin Bormann in 1941. Hitler kept Blondi even after his move into the Führerbunker located underneath the garden of the Reich Chancellery on January 16 1945.”

🧵3/13 “In May 1942, Hitler bought another young German Shepherd “from a minor official in the post office in Ingolstadt to keep Blondi company. He called her Bella.”

🧵4/14 “Blondi had her own caretaker, who attended to her full-time. Unlike many regular dogs who lived in outdoor kennels, Blondi was allowed indoors. She had her own special wooden box in Hitler's room. She was even allowed inside the sleeping compartment of Hitler's special

🧵5/13 ‘In March or in early April likely April 1945, she had a litter of five puppies with Gerdy Troost's German Shepherd, Harras. Adolf Hitler named one of the puppies "Wulf", his favorite nickname and the meaning of his own first name, Adolf ("noble wolf"), and he began to

🧵6/13 He had been given a German Shepherd before named “Prinz” in 1921, during his years of poverty, but he had been forced to lodge the dog elsewhere. However, she managed to escape and return to him. Hitler, who adored the loyalty and obedience of the dog, thereafter

🧵7/13 Before Blondi, Hitler had two German Shepherd dogs, a mother [born 1926] and daughter [born ca. 1930] – both named Blonda. In some photos taken during the 1930s the younger Blonda is incorrectly labeled as Blondi (in most cases photograph descriptions were written later).

🧵8/13 During his military service in World War I, Hitler rescued a stray white Fox Terrier named Fuchsl. Hitler had great affection for the dog, and when he was not on duty at the front, he would spend much of his free time playing with the dog in the barracks and teaching it

🧵9/13 With the Soviets approaching… “Before Hitler terminated his own life on April 30, 1945, he ended Blondi’s with cyanide capsules.” “Hitler believed had not killed, Blondi was likely to have been beaten then eaten by the Soviets, who had lived miserable and angry because

🧵10/13 “After the battle of Berlin ended, the remains of Hitler, Braun, and two dogs (thought to be Blondi and her offspring Wulf) were discovered in a shell crater lying next to Hitler's body, by a unit of Smersh, the Soviet counter-intelligence agency. “

🧵11/13 “Hitler’s nurse, Erna Flegel said in 2005 that Blondi’s death had affected the people in the bunker more than Eva Braun’s suicide. Erna Flegel died old age 94 in 2006 in Mollin.”

🧵12/13 Fun facts about National Socialist “Nazi” Germany on Animals Rights. • “The current animal welfare laws in Germany were initially introduced by the Nazis” • “Nazi Germany was also the first in the world to place the wolf under protection. And the first to make laws

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@truthtroll_X He didn’t kill himelf

@Christine75214 A theory for sure.

@truthtroll_X @lieevertold He poisoned Blondie with cyanide :(

@truthtroll_X Why not take the dog with him to Argentina?

@truthtroll_X @lieevertold I still choose to believe they escaped to Argentina

@truthtroll_X @threadreaderapp unroll ta

@truthtroll_X Brilliant thread. Well done!! Earned my follow.

@truthtroll_X Lies he was a jew traitor who fled