Alligator Rumored to Have Been Hitler's Pet Dies in Moscow Zoo

[Dennis Donovan]

https://time.com/5842094/hitler-pet-alligator-dies/


The alligator Saturn swims in water at the Moscow Zoo, in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 19, 2019. Mikhail Bibichkov—AP

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS MAY 24, 2020 4:40 PM EDT

(MOSCOW) — An alligator that many people believe once belonged to Adolf Hitler has died in the Moscow Zoo.

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According to the zoo, Saturn was born in the United States and later sent to the Berlin Zoo, from which he escaped when the zoo was bombed in 1943. His whereabouts were unknown until 1946, when British soldiers found him and gave him to the Soviet Union, the zoo said.

“Almost immediately, the myth was born that he was allegedly in the collection of Hitler and not in the Berlin Zoo,” the zoo said in a statement.

But, it noted, “animals are not involved in war and politics and it is absurd to blame them for human sins.”

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Mussolini's hippo awaits across the Rainbow Bridge...

[exboyfil]

1. Alligator survive three years in the wild in Berlin?

I sure it must have been the sewers like the ones in the NYC sewers.

[Me.]

2. This Is A Reptile Version Of The Brookly Bridge

At most Alligators live 50 years. This alligator would have to be at least 75.