But in one of the more remarkable ironies of 20th-century history, Menzel also trained the dogs that helped create the state of Israel.
'I suffered a lot knowing that my students in Austria and Germany were using the knowledge they acquired from me to use dogs to exterminate my people and other peoples,' she said in an interview roughly 10 years before her death in 1973. Toward the end of her life, the Austrian-born Jewish scientist Rudolphina Menzel acknowledged a horrifying reality: the dog-training techniques she pioneered had been used by the Nazis to commit atrocities.
Heller School for Social Policy and Management