• Text smaller   • Text bigger  Meanwhile, a couple of furry
friends got somehow connected to that historic bad boy, Adolf
Hitler.  Goldie practices her salute.  Goldie the German
Shepherd caused some public barking when the dog starred in a TV
drama about the Hindenburg airship disaster.  The canine’s
offense? It had been taught to replicate the Nazi salute to
Hitler.  Animal lover Jens Mueller from Berlin said: “At the
very least, it is politically incorrect. Why make a poor dumb
animal pay reverence to history’s greatest killer?”  Actor
Hannes Jaenicke trained Goldie to do the salute by giving the
pup a biscuit each time, and noted, “Animals are strictly
regulated when they work for German TV.”  Who’da thunk the
Germans of all people would have strict regulation?  Kitler just
sayin’ “Heil.”  And then there was the case of Kitler, the
kitten that looks like Hitler.  Kitler was abandoned kitten in
the United Kingdom, and given the unique name because her facial
markings seemed “spot on.”  Tara Dundon at the