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In early 1915 sergeant Hitler adopted a stray dog he named Fuchsl (little fox), who was taught many tricks and became his beloved companion. Hitler described him as a “proper circus dog”. German sergeant Adolf Hitler’s possible pit bull Fuchsl who earlier accompanied British troops, has mostly been whitewashed from history as purportedly either a fox terrier or a Jack Russell terrier. Small for a pit bull, Fuchsl may indeed have been a large Jack Russell, but was certainly not a fox terrier. As the story goes, his master was trying to teach him a trick of some sort, but the dog wouldn’t come to attention, so Adolf chased after him (to reprimand him perhaps!), and at the moment when he left the area where he and some comrades where sitting, a shell exploded killing almost everybody there. One day, he was to be moved to another unit and he tied his dog to a wagon wheel while he went to get his gear. When he came back, just minutes later, someone had stolen that dog.