'Heil Rover!' Hitler-imitating dog enraged Nazis

During WW II, German diplomats obsessed over canine that copied Fuehrer's salute

Newly discovered documents have revealed a bizarre footnote to World War II the Nazis' dogged obsession with a Finnish mutt who gave not a howl, but a heil.

And, just as absurdly, the totalitarian state that dominated most of Europe was unable to do much about the canine's paw-raising parody of Germany's Fuehrer.