Nazis Tried to Train Dogs To Communicate For War

That's what Dr. Jan Bondeson's research claims:

The Germans viewed canines as being almost as intelligent as humans and attempted to build an army of fearsome 'speaking' dogs, extraordinary new research shows.

Hitler hoped the clever creatures would learn to communicate with their SS masters - and he even had a special dog school set up to teach them to talk.

The incredible findings show Nazi officials recruited so-called educated dogs from all over Germany and trained them to speak and tap out signals using their paws.

It sounds like an April Fool's joke to me, but I guess it is legitimate research.