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- There was virtually no public attention paid to the zoo's Third Reich history until 2000, when Werner Cohn, whose father was a former shareholder, wrote to enquire about the fate of those shares. The zoo initially denied that Jewish shareholders were forced to sell their shares, but as a public scandal ensued, it ultimately acknowledged this.
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Its current state marks an impressive comeback from its fate in World War II, when the Berlin Zoo was totally demolished, and lost all but 91 of the roughly 4000 animals it had housed in 1939. The Berlin Zoo Until World War II
Jun 12, 2022 · This is a story of how violence and dictatorship made the Berlin Zoo lose its innocence, but it is also a story of love for animals, human powers of survival and the rebirth of the historic and public icon the Berlin Zoo still is today.
- Under Fire
- Zoo Tower
- After The War
- Today
In times of war, a zoo can be vulnerable to attack and also can be a source of danger for civilians. An attack on the zoo could not only lead to animals being killed, but also the additional risk of chaos if any of the animals, especially the more dangerous ones, escaped. As Berlin increasingly became the focus of the Soviet bombing campaigns, step...
An important installation at the zoo was the Zoo Tower which was built to provide reinforcement and shelter. Several similar fortified towers were built in Berlin to protect public buildings. The tower at the zoo had a gun platform, and radio masts which made it an important center of communication. The tower was built above a network of undergroun...
The Battle of Berlin was the decisive battle that brought final defeat for Germany. Hitler and his companions had already committed suicide by the time the battle began in earnest. Following the post-war division of Berlin, the Zoo was contained within West Berlin and a second new zoo was later created in East Berlin. In 1945 the war damage was rea...
The zoo remains a popular visitor attraction in the heart of modern Berlin and attracts more than 3.3 million visitors per year. It now houses over 20,000 animals representing around 1,500 different species. Many of these are rare and endangered species, such as giant pandas, and are part of the zoo’s breeding programs. Fortunately the animals’ liv...
Nov 12, 2019 · A visitor’s annual pass had been taken away because she’d fed animals without permission. Not so very long before, feeding the animals had still been tolerated. Zoo director Heinz-Georg...
Lorraine Boissoneault. March 31, 2017. Aurochs illustration from Sigismund von Herberstein's book published in 1556 Wikimedia Commons. Born to the director of the Berlin Zoo, Lutz Heck seemed...
During the National Socialist dictatorship, the zoo served the regime unconditionally. Jewish members were pushed out of the supervisory board and made the zoo available as a venue for National Socialist propaganda shows.
The zoo initially denied that Jewish shareholders were forced to sell their shares, but as a public scandal ensued, it ultimately acknowledged this. It commissioned a historian to identify these past shareholders and track down their descendants, according to a report by AFP. Zoo View of Berlin Zoo from Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
