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15 Historical Facts About German Shepherds You Might Not Know

#13 After the war, the breed almost disappeared … A huge number of shepherd dogs died in the battles, and the breeders had no time to engage in high-quality breeding. The breed had to be revived almost from the ashes.

#14 The division of Germany, on the other hand, led to the fact that dogs were reborn according to different standards, and several subspecies of the breed appeared.

#15 The exhibitions resumed in 1946, and five years later a new hero appeared at one of them – the champion Rolf von Osnabrücker, the founder of modern “high breeding” lines.

Alice White

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