But that breed has often been used in political cartoons to refer to Germany.
In World War I, the dachshund was often used as a stand-in for Germany:
This political cartoon in Punch used the specific idea of a Dachshund as a seeing eye dog to lampoon Turkey's joining the war on the German side:
In World War II, the dachshund was used to symbolize Nazi Germany (including by Dr. Seuss:)
The artist of the offensive cartoon, Antonio Antunes Moreira. had previously compared Israel to Nazi Germany in this incredibly antisemitic cartoon from the 1980s:
The dachshund was not a coincidence. Moreira wanted to compare Israel to Nazi Germany.
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