"It is to be hoped that the Teutonic origin of the dachshund is not going to affect the popularity of this clever and amusing little dog during this war as it did, very stupidly too, in the last. Because 95 percent of our dachshunds are native-born American citizens. What's more, dachshunds couldn't possibly make good Nazis. This long-bodied underslung dog was specially bred in Germany centuries ago to hunt out a burrowing animal called the badger. A badger is something like a rat. Hitler couldn't own a dachshund with any peace of mind, because he'd be afraid every time his dog dashed into a burrow it would pull out one of his pals."
(from The Yellow Violet, by Frances Crane)
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