Training of service dogs according to the methods of the NKVD and the SS troops of the Wehrmacht.
My first article about dogs "Doomed to Love" was published by the Kaliningrad publishing house "Sea Collection" BF 02.07/1988. Immediately after the beginning of perestroika. At that time it took a certain courage to insert into it a few paragraphs about the methods of training dogs in the special forces of the Wehrmacht. I did not stutter at all about the NKVD, the KGB and similar organizations. Let us talk right away. Do not expect to find something out of the ordinary in these methods. Ultimately, any special training seeks to achieve the same goal - to teach the dog the special service: search, tracking work, guarding and detaining people, searching for drugs or explosives. These special tasks are very diverse. For example, to spy on the "spy" Panofsky, the committee members used small dogs, trained only to smell him. Old men and women walking with lapdogs or Spitz did not arouse Panofsky’s suspicions, especially since they "led" him at a considerable distance, constantly replacing each other. I must add that general dogs are not used for special services. From the very beginning, the dog must be focused on some one specific task, for example, searching for spent cartridges, and then he performs this work flawlessly. In the 60s, when fate brought me to a police kennel, I happened to train two dogs for drug search by order of the Irkutsk KGB. The deadlines were so tight, and the requirements were so categorical, that the dogs had to be taught in the harshest way - to turn them into drug addicts themselves. A two-year-old male and female Russian Spaniel were purchased, quite obedient city dogs, who served their old masters as decorative dogs, not hunting dogs. I was completely released from work in the nursery of the regional criminal investigation department, where I was listed as the deputy head of Captain Lyubimtsev. They took an appropriate non-disclosure agreement from me and gave me a certain amount of "weed", "powder" and raw. I only had one month. (Salary, I must say, they didn’t raise me, and they didn’t even promise a bonus.) I don’t argue, the spaniels I trained brought a lot of benefits. First the market, and then the railway stations, airports, they controlled, accompanied by civilian-clad committeemen. And unmistakably, like sapper dogs, they found the drug in tightly closed suitcases, in plastic bags disguised among fruit boxes, and in other places. And yet bitterness for these dogs still gnaws at my soul. Unfortunately, today the majority of negligent dog handlers, under pressure from their superiors, speed up the training of special services dogs with such incorrect methods. Here you can immediately talk about the fastest and most effective method in working out with a dog to detain a person. A bold aggressive dog is taken and set on a person. On a man with his hands tied, barefoot. In Nalchik, there used to be the International School of Dog Breeding of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Cubans, Poles, Czechs studied there. And the Russians too. In this school in 1970 they showed me trophy tapes of the fascist time. The detention of a man in striped clothes by two Dobermans looked very impressive. I do not know in which concentration camp this survey was carried out; the man was allowed to run twenty meters away, and then they let the dogs in. Less than a minute later, all the protruding parts of the body were bitten off, torn out of the victim: nose, fingers, genitals. An absurd, bloodied stump agonized on the ground, and the Dobermans, in their usual "snake" manner, "stung", gnawed this body. Dobermans like to work in pairs, and in detention two Dobermans are more dangerous than four shepherds. An amazing reaction, an insidious method of attack, an indomitable passion. Dobermans work just as clearly on the trail. Service dog breeding knows no other such sensitive breed. Dobermans used by Interpol also work in pairs, we will talk about this later. At one time, the brilliant commander A. Macedonian "put under arms" four thousand dogs. Huge mastiff-shaped dogs, dressed in chain mail horsebacks, reversed not only foot and horseback warriors, but even Persian war elephants. Hitler had 400,000 well-trained dogs in his army. Most of them were the famous universal German Shepherds, but there were many other serious breeds in terms of service, combat: Giant Schnauzers, Dobermans, Great Danes. Shepherd dogs, used to guard and escort the highest officers of the Wehrmacht, were distinguished by short black hair and huge (for a shepherd) size. Basically, the stake was made on low (the standards of a German shepherd at the withers at that time were ten centimeters less), “stocky”, with a strong nervous system of dogs. The culling for physiological, and most importantly, for psychological factors was very tough. The whole population took part in breeding. As a result, very soon Hitler received almost a million four-legged assistants for various services and departments. Although, before the start of the war, the Nazis did not train, at least openly, dogs on living people, the training methodology was vvery tough. For example, after preliminary training, which developed the rejection of food scattered near the training site, the final stage was carried out with the use of poison. It is known that wolves, dogs, jackals, foxes are able to perfectly resist any attempt at poisoning. If there is a lot of poison in a poisoned piece of meat, the animal will burp this piece and will never take the poisoned bait again. If there is little poison, regurgitation will occur when it has already partially penetrated the body. The animal will be ill and will conclude for life. Are the Germans? at the second stage of training, increased doses of poison were put into the food. Some of the dogs died. However, loyal fans of the racial theory of the survival of the fittest were cold-blooded about this. Some of the dogs burped at the right time. Some did not touch food at all, remembering their previous activities. No less rigidly conducted training on the general course of obedience. The dogs worked extremely accurately, although there was something of soulless mechanisms in this work. It is not surprising that training, based mainly on coercion, rarely puts the trainee in a good mood. But the Germans, with the pragmatism inherent in their nation, sought unquestioning, clear execution of orders from the four-legged soldiers, the rest did not bother them. The training on a person took place in stages. The first stage is a group attack by young dogs of a beef or mutton carcass dressed in human clothes. The carcass hung above the ground, the dogs tore clothes, trying to get to the meat as quickly as possible. (Let's recall our classes in protective guard duty, when the dogs grab a wadded dress suit, trying not to pinch, even if by accident, a naked body.) The second stage is an attack on an assistant dressed in a very peculiar way. A dress robe lined with porous rubber and lined with cork from the inside. And it’s nice to bite, and you won’t cripple the trainer. A canvas fire hose around the neck, an apron made from a piece of an automobile tire in front, and a fencing metal mask on the face. In the hands of a short stick. Encourage attacks on the throat, on the groin, where such a "delicious" apron. Protection from a stick - at the discretion of the dog. In the future, the stick is replaced by a pistol with a blank, harmless, but scalding and loud blank charge. After the first acquaintance with the weapon, the dog will never allow it to be directed at itself. After one hundred percent assimilation of the general course of training (at the same time it was much easier than now), after a confident attack, first on one assistant with any weapon, and then on two dogs, they were selected according to their abilities and began to train more purposefully. Some were trained to guard high-ranking bosses. It was dominated by a curious way of teaching many commands through one guide. In fact, many commands imply a variety of actions. By giving the command “search” and throwing a thing into the bushes, we use both forward movement, shuttle, and the work of smell, and much more. And the Germans consistently and specifically taught the guard dog, the guard dog, based on the “alien” command. The dog must completely immobilize the guest, the person to whom this command refers, but not attack him without reason. True, they used a different command - the command "attention" ("akhtung"). (Let me remind you that for a dog, the set of sounds that orient him to this or that action is completely indifferent. Pick up the commands yourself, this is your own business and maybe even your secret. For example, instead of the “alien” command, I quietly say to my dog “ siskin.”) In this special training, three teams were the main ones: “alien”, “calmly”, “our”. Each of them implied a whole complex of commands, a set of actions, a special style of behavior. Having received the command “his” and sniffing, remembering the person, the dog was completely indifferent to him in the future. This person could come to the owner's house in his absence, take out all the things - the dog was indifferent. This person could not do only three actions: attack the owner, pet the dog or command it and feed this dog, or even just offer food to it. These guard dogs reacted to the offer of food in the case of the first introductory command “ours” in the same way - they knocked this person down and guarded him until the owner arrived. The "calmly" command allowed the person to whom it referred some freedom of action. Naturally, attacking the owner, addressing the dog is the strictest taboo and is stopped by it instantly. In addition, when he left, he could not even take a match out of the house. The dog immediately stopped the intruder at the exit with a formidable roar. But in general, a person who was under the care of the "calmly" command could move around the room without making sharp, threatening movements, and behave more or less freely. In the case of "violations" of these boundaries, he was not attacked without warning, first followed by a warning growl. You are reading all this, and I see that you yourself are thinking: how to immobilize a person with the help of a dog, and even with one single command? I'll tell you. But first, I’ll repeat: an introductory command that implies a whole series of other commands, a behavioral complex kih and motor reflexes, is by no means so complicated. We sometimes involuntarily develop them ourselves in dogs, without suspecting it. For example, the dog is accustomed to the sequence of projectiles on the site: boom, barrier, ladder. Having overcome one projectile, she already squeals with impatience to move on to the next. This is called a dynamic stereotype. In some cases it is useful. Athletes practicing certain movements bring them to automatism, fixing in themselves the same reflex dynamic stereotype. We also use this in more complex training. It is only necessary that each team that makes up the complex has already been worked out in advance. Alien team. A man is dangerous, his every movement must be monitored. Here he is trying to put his hand in his pocket. A formidable roar, the bared mouth of a dog at his hand. Dangerous movement prevented. The man, carried away by the conversation, leans slightly towards the owner. This time the dog's teeth are at his throat (if he's sitting) or groin (if he's standing). Partially first. On the dressing ground, the assistant put his hand in his pocket. The dog had already received the introductory command "alien", but did not respond because it did not understand it. The assistant immediately pulled out his hand with a whip and hit the dog on the withers. After she took away the whip, the owner stopped her, reassured her, and again gave an introductory word - “alien”. The first desire of the dog: to rush at once, forestalling the danger. This attempt has been stopped. Now the dog is all tense, he is waiting for a catch. And in fact, the assistant's hand reaches for a dangerous pocket. The owner does not allow him to rush at him, but a menacing growl encourages him. And this warning growl helps, the dog sees that the enemy has stopped reaching for the dangerous pocket, stands still. How to prevent dangerous, threatening movements towards the owner, I think you have already guessed for yourself. In the same way: introductory, movement, if the dog did not rush to the defense - a blow with a whip. The dog must understand: any threat to the owner is a threat to her. Dogs that instinctively, by their nature, did not rush to protect the owner, were not selected for the guard service. They were used in less responsible positions. Every dog breeder knows how to wean a dog to take food from strangers. Another thing is that now we do not teach her to rush to the one who treats. Although many dogs growl during training. But how not to let the guest take something out of the house? Could he slip the same matches into his pocket out of forgetfulness? The methodology is the same. The introductory one is “calmly”, the assistant puts some household item in his pocket (at first, you can use noticeable things that smell good at home), goes to the exit and beats the dog. There are difficulties here. It is necessary that the dog by all means connect the aggression of the departing with the thing taken. Restraint is required. No attack, no direct attack after the "quiet" command. The owner helps the dog with commands “good”, “no”. After the thing is returned, the assistant leaves without any provocation, the owner encourages the dog. In the future, there will be no special problems. Firstly, the dog will carefully follow the guest during his visit, and secondly, he will certainly sniff him at the exit, and only then release him. I hope you understand the basics. Previously familiar commands, such as “guard”, “sniff”, “face”, “search” and many others, are combined into one, and the dog is urged to action by the provocative actions of the assistant. Remember my dynamic stereotype example? You can give the dog a single command "forward" and he will go through all three shells in the usual sequence without stopping. If in the future, after the command “forward”, you always force her to sit down before climbing the stairs, she will soon learn this too. It is interesting that such a guard dog acquired a true owner late. Up to 6-8 months it was grown in some German family, which then, pouting with pride, performed a patriotic duty - handed it over to the army. Various instructors worked with her in the kennel. And only at the last, final stage of preparation, she began to work with her new owner, and even then under the guidance of an instructor. You ask: how did she determine who her real owner was? Did she retain any feelings for the former? No. In the process of gradual education, the former owners, the instructors, faded into the background, in the creation of the dog they were assigned the same role as the assistants on whom it was set on. In the former USSR, for the first time, dogs for the army and domestic service were trained in kennels, starting from puppyhood. After 1945, almost all kennels began to buy young dogs from the public. It was more economically profitable, simplified the work of nurseries, and gave faster results. But the custom of giving dogs to border guards was preserved in the country until perestroika. The older generation remembers the famous border guard Karatsupu with his superdog Hindu. In those days, the horse and dog were almost the main "colleagues" of the soldiers on the borders in the difficult work of detaining violators. And this work was quite successful. There is such an almost fantastic fact that took place in the Far East. A group of saboteurs stumbled go to a detachment of border guards, dispersed in the evening in a swampy ravine overgrown with dense bushes. The ravine was cordoned off, we decided to wait until the morning. But the dog breeder, with the permission of his superiors, let his dog search. During the night, the dog led 15 offenders out of the bushes. All had disfigured hands. The dog crawled up to the man, rushed, bit the hand with the weapon, if the resistance continued, he gnawed through the second one, and clearly showed where to go. In essence, he drove a bandit, drove him to the border guards, as his wild ancestors drove an elk or a bison. Karatsupovsky Hindu, when detaining violators on the train, in a compartment, disarmed three people, while his owner coped with one. On the whole, it is unpleasant to write about the use of dogs in the NKVD. Although the border troops were also in the department of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, and everything related to working with dogs was correct. And yet it must be admitted that most of the dogs worked in the Gulag. 75% - camp security, 10% - border troops, 8% - private security, 5% - criminal investigation, 2% - counterintelligence. In the first years of the war, the activities of dog breeders were partially controlled by SMERSH. This made it necessary to cook the dogs hastily, rudely. Demolition dogs, for example, having blown up a tank, perished. They were simply taught to eat only under the tank: first, when the engine was not working, then with the engine running, then under a car crawling at low speed. When the dog ran up to him from the front, the tank would stop and the dog would be given a bowl of food. Such a simple truth, that a dog can release an explosive with a minute slowdown of the detonator, for some reason did not occur to the instructors. Now schoolchildren engaged in training demonstrate this technique. The dog runs up to the model of the tank, pulls the belt hanging from a small backpack attached to the back, throws off this backpack and rushes at full speed to the owner for a treat. During the war, dogs served as signalmen, sappers, and orderlies. Their role was quite high, the statistics of only mines cleared with their help is staggering. Much has been written about the use of dogs in our army during the Great Patriotic War. There is, in fact, almost nothing to tell about the "camp" dogs. Their training was not original, the ability to bait dogs on living people was used by the NKVDeshniks long before the Nazis. Dogs guarding convicts are always focused on one smell. Any convict in any camp smells specific. As already noted, the dog receives 75% of the information through the nose, thanks to its unique sense of smell. And only this information she truly trusts. Let's set up a little experiment: we'll blindfold the dog, we'll send a friend to her with a tape recorder on which your voice and your commands are recorded. The dog sniffs and will not obey, instantly "calculating" someone else's. Before the war in England, it became necessary to liquidate a high-ranking German diplomat. The British did not have evidence that he was a scout, they did not want to spoil international relations. And then scientists came to the rescue. They developed a composition that for some time changed the smell of human sweat, skin. In the store, having created an artificial crowd, the German was given an instant injection of this composition in the buttock. Naturally, the German immediately rushed to the embassy, where he was carefully examined, various tests were done, but no poison was found. The German lived in a separate cottage, and he had a superbly trained, ferocious shepherd dog - his first friend. When he returned home, the dog bit him. People who live crowded in barracks, cells, eat the same way, wear the same clothes, smell in a specific way. The smell of a convict stands out sharply from all the others. Any person, entering the zone for the first time, feels this peculiar smell of the prison. The protection of the camps is, first of all, sniffing out all the goods taken out of the zone. Here dogs are indispensable. In trucks, railway cars, containers, among sawdust, metal, various products, the dog will unmistakably find the prisoner. Many attempts to escape can be prevented thanks to the dogs. But when it comes to “sampling”, that is, searching for a specific person among other people by the smell of his things, here dogs often fail in the zone. The “smell of the crowd”, the area they are primarily oriented to, prevents them from identifying the smell of a particular person. Interpol dog handlers have long had dogs working on the so-called "smell enhancer". The composition of this substance contains many components, among them is the discharge of a flowing bitch. And in order to smell a female in heat, one molecule of smell per square meter is enough for a male dog. We will talk about the scientific achievements of Western police dog breeding. The dogs belonging to the NKVD that escorted the prisoners were practically devoid of restraining reflexes. They literally hung on leashes, burning with one passion: to tear the convict apart. In the books written by the prisoners of the Gulag, I never came across any details related to dogs. And the fact that in the northern zones the dogs were fed with human flesh, I first learned l from a drunken pensioner, in whose room portraits of Stalin and Beria hung. In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, which, as you know, was built by the "Komsomol", I received confirmation of these facts. One of the Komsomol builders, over a glass of beer, recalling the difficulties of construction, said: - It was hard. You can see for yourself how windy it is. And in winter! You put on a sheepskin coat over your overcoat - it still blows. You won’t believe it, the rifle froze to the hands through the mittens, and these bastards plow in only quilted jackets - and nothing: already steam comes from them. But they died. All the same, they died, where are you going to go. At the utility yard, they were sometimes piled up in piles, but they couldn’t be buried - the ground was frozen, they had to be torn with explosives. You chop off, it happened, there from carcasses that are softer: the shoulder blade, buttocks are well boiled. Though skinny meat, but dogs ate with pleasure. The head of a small concentration camp in the Baltic States, Herr Wolf Shtaunberg, took his groomed dog to the parade ground every morning. The dog himself chose a prisoner in the ranks, gnawed him and ate the soft parts with an appetite for lunch. After the camp was liberated, the prisoners crucified the dog, abandoned by the hastily retreating owner, on a wooden fence, involuntarily "glorifying" this mournful fact. Defending the honor of dogs, I want to add a small digression to this story. In a similar situation, exactly the same dog, only in a different camp, crippled his fascist master. It was during the retreat. The carriage with Russian children en route to Germany was broken down, and the children spent the night in a concentration camp. In the morning they were built separately. The owner decided to pamper the cannibal dog and led him to a little girl. I vividly imagine this picture. A dog, looking down at an emaciated child who has not yet learned to be afraid of dogs and therefore trustingly reaches for a huge mouth with his little hand, the dog turns to the owner, a short questioning look, the command of the irritated owner “face” - and a throw to the throat, tightened with a high collar of uniform with swastika emblem. Finishing a short story about the use of dogs by the NKVD, I must add a spoonful of honey to the barrel of tar. To some extent, it was through the efforts of the NKVD and the border troops that trained dogs helped win the war. Dogs were demobilized, like people, en masse. They even sent FUNERALS to their former owners. And the young friends of the border guards, members of the general TRP circles (ready for work and defense) raised and transferred many excellent dogs to the army. Yes, and the police of those years respected the sniffer dogs. The famous Sultan from the Criminal Investigation Department, who served as the prototype for the hero of the famous film “Come to me, Mukhtar!”, returned the stolen valuables to the state for a total of 14 million rubles (in money until 1961). Now the role of dogs in the Ministry of Internal Affairs is reduced to a minimum. Basically, this is to help patrol policemen. Poor training, malnutrition, low level of dog handlers - all this contributes to regression. But there was a period before perestroika when police dogs were trained to work on the joint venture - a domestic development of an odor enhancer. Rugs soaked in it were thrown in rural, district stores at night. In the event of a break-in, the criminal, without suspecting anything and not smelling it, stepped on it. The dog could follow the trail of such a criminal in rural conditions after three or four days, and in urban conditions - in a day. Changing shoes and clothes did not always help: the smell was absorbed into the skin, hair, under the nails. If there were suspects, it was enough to line them up in front of the SP trained dog. She could smell the smell in a week. Interpol has always made extensive use of the latest scientific achievements. And the police services of Western countries did not separate cynology from true science. So, in 1971, the Pentagon allocated $ 1 billion to its scientists to breed a super dog. There were no more reports on this topic either in the press or in the specialized literature. Until now, we do not know if these studies were successful. Just do not think that the usual genetic breeding activities were meant. Undoubtedly, this meant, first of all, the development of odorology (the science of smells) at the organic, electronic and other levels. A Doberman can follow a cyclist's trail after 10-12 hours. The male cabbage butterfly catches the smell of the female for 10 kilometers! Honey insects - bees, wasps, bumblebees - clearly differentiate hundreds of smells of plants, flying either to a buckwheat field, many kilometers away, or to flowering lindens. Pigs are used in France to search for underground mushrooms - truffles. Customs has long used trained pigs to keep drugs out. It turns out that the sensitivity to the smell of drugs in pigs is higher than in dogs. Odorologists recommended to Interpol a new method of searching for criminals - air sampling from the crime scene for selection by dogs among the suspects. For a short period of stay indoors, in an open area with earthen soil, the offender still leaves odor traces. Odor molecules settle on the ground, walls, fabrics. With a special vacuum syringe from these places, especially if there are visible traces, prints, air is sucked in stored in a sealed container. In the presence of witnesses, having explained the situation to the suspects, the dog is allowed to sniff the air preservative from the crime scene, and it unmistakably finds a person with an identical smell. (And the smell is as individual and unique as fingerprints, a fingerprint pattern.) When a thing, possibly left by a criminal, is at the crime scene, the task of the dog handler is greatly simplified. A match, a hair, a thread of fabric from clothes, placed in a sealed package, retain the smell of the wanted for several months. The smell carries in its composition a huge amount of information about a person's personality. Even the mental state affects the smell. In anger, a person adds adrenaline to his secretions, in fear - other chemical and hormonal substances. Human health, nutrition, skin color, abuse of certain medications, drugs - all this can tell the smell. Unfortunately, the project of an electronic nose, which will still be significantly inferior to the nose of animals, cannot yet be technically implemented. Presumably, when it is completed, the size of the installation will exceed the five-story building. Why do ordinary chain dogs rarely attack drunks? Drunk people don't smell fear. If a person is not afraid, the dog, according to his canine logic, does not consider him dangerous. That is why many dogs rush at completely neutral passers-by, who actually carefully try to hide their subconscious fear of the dog. And the dog thinks straightforwardly: he is afraid, which means that he has conceived something bad. To learn from the behavior of a dog to determine the characteristics of the smell perceived by it is one of the tasks of the community of odorologists and cynologists. The fact that the dog cannot speak must be a big obstacle. To some extent, the dog has the speech of gestures, sounds; and a skillfully taken encephalogram, a comprehensive analysis of its physiological state (something like a lie detector) can help the contact of a person and an animal. In a story about the activities of Interpol and other special services, purely organizational issues cannot be avoided. Science is science, but the reader is probably no less interested in the administrative side of police dog breeding. Here it is appropriate to make a small digression and talk about the attitude towards dogs in a civilized society in general. Poland. There is an article in the criminal code - mockery of animals entails a punishment of up to five years in prison, plus a large fine in favor of the owner of the animal. The dog can be insured against robbery, accident, illness. There is also a special type of insurance - for everything that a dog can do bad: if it bites someone, the insurance agency will pay for the damage. The carriage of dogs in a muzzle is allowed in all types of transport: metro, tram, taxi, steamer. The cost of a "dog" ticket is half the price of a human one. The dog tax is one-twentieth of the average monthly income per year. Most hotels allow you to stay with your dog. In restaurants, you can order lunch for her: raw meat, soup without seasonings; the waiter will bring everything in special bowls and put it in front of the dog. Czechoslovakia under socialism. 1989, Brno, International Dog Show. Perhaps the most obvious attitude to dogs can be traced in a cafe. Agree, for our "Lilies", "Minutes", "Bistro" a dog curled up on the table, even such a crumb as a Yorkshire Terrier, is an unimaginable thing. Tired dog, what's so special? And while the owners decide what to drink: beer or lemonade, dry wine or coffee, tired Yorkshire will have a little rest. And not far away, two mittels sit decorously on chairs on the sides of the hostess. Neighbors at the table - a young couple "from sympathizers" - feed them fried sausages. When the train approached Brno, dogs got out of the car: those who were supposed to be muzzled, and change was muzzled. Minced a miniature German Spitz with a shiny chocolate coat. And this pound animal also needs a muzzle - an elegant beige thimble dangled for order, fastened to the collar. And it immediately became clear to all those who doubted: a decent dog has well-mannered owners. The exhibition took place in July. The pool with a fountain in those hot days was overflowing with happy naked children and no less happy dogs ... England. Interview with a cinematographer. “Tell me, do you often get jailed for bullying dogs?” - "Rarely. It is generally accepted among us that the one who offended the dog is no longer a person. No one will give him a hand." Where can you walk your dog in London? Yes, everywhere you can. Of course, I myself never let my dog do business on the pavement or the playground. How will they look at me in this case? Like an uneducated person. And on the lawns - please, because I pay the tax. I think that after these sketches there is no need to explain what special kennels for service dogs look like. Interestingly, Interpol strongly encourages keeping a dog in the house of the police officer who works with it. In this case, 1/2 of the cost of
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