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Jun 23, 2015 · In 1921, the school relocated to Potsdam, and several branches were opened throughout the country. Guide dogs were initially provided exclusively for war veterans, and, accordingly, they were called guide dogs for the war blind (Kriegsblindenführhund).
- Monika Baár
- 2015
The German Red Cross Ambulance Dogs Association established a training centre in Oldenberg. The first guide dog was issued in 1916 to a blinded veteran, Paul Feyen. Within a year there were 100 guide dogs issued and 539 guide dogs had been issued by 1919. In 1922, the first classes for civilian blind men commenced.
1 The image now is much different, with guide dogs and their blind partners traveling freely, safely, and con-fi dently. Before and during World War I guide dogs were not used by blind Americans to aid in their mobility and indepen-dence. Initially the guide dog movement began in Germany
Aug 29, 2024 · The article, penned by American dog trainer Dorothy Harrison Eustis, detailed a German school training blind World War I veterans to use guide dogs. Moved by the article, Frank wrote to Eustis, seeking information on how he could obtain a guide dog.
Jan 9, 2022 · From the St Louis Daily Globe-Democrat, one Monday morning in April 1918, discussing the formal training of guide dogs for blinded German veterans of the First World War.
On November 5, 1927, The Saturday Evening Post published an article by Eustis about a school outside Berlin that trained German war veterans who had been blinded by mustard gas in World War I. Soon the publishing company was forwarding her piles of letters from readers who wanted to know more.
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Jun 23, 2015 · Under this scheme, which the German state initially made available to war veterans in 1916, dogs became helpers, and, furthermore, equal partners to disabled soldiers.
