Mary Allen
#7 If initially all dachshunds were black, today there are 12 standard colors for representatives of this breed and three types of “special signs”.
#8 Dachshunds became “victims” of the love of the German imperial house for them.
Due to the love of the German Emperor Wilhelm II for dachshunds (he had five dogs of this breed) during and immediately after the First World War, the popularity of dachshunds in the rest of the world sharply decreased. Dachshunds were even depicted in caricatures when they depicted the image of aggressive and blunt representatives of the German nation.
#9 The Nazis claimed to have taught one of the dachshunds to talk.
A blow to the dachshunds was also struck by the commitment to the breed of the leaders of Nazi Germany. German scientists in the 1930s carried out special studies within the Hundesprechschule Asra program. As a result, they got to the point that they supposedly taught the dachshunds to speak, read, communicate telepathically. It took decades of peaceful post-war life for the breed's reputation to be restored.