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By the outbreak of WWII in 1939, the Berlin Zoo housed nearly 4000 mammals and birds, and over 8000 specimens in its aquarium. The Nazi authorities had made some nebulous plans and promises to evacuate the animals of the Berlin Zoo, as well as those of other German zoos such as Dresden’s and Dusseldorf’s, but they never followed through.
1939. During the Second World War, Berlin Zoo is almost completely destroyed; only 91 of over 4,000 animals survive the war. In the following years, various buildings such as the antelope house or the aquarium are reconstructed. 1970 – 1980.
Its aquarium opened in 1913. Frederick William IV, King of Prussia, donated the first animals from the zoo and pheasantry of the Tiergarten. In the same year, a U-Bahn station was opened nearby. On September 8, 1941, the Allies bombed the zoo area for the first-time during World War II.
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In post-World War II Europe, divided Berlin was ground zero for Cold War tensions. “The Cold War was right there in one city like it was no place else, the two sides rubbing against each other, risking World War III every time there were tensions between East and West,” says Hope Harrison, professor of history and international affairs at George Wa...
Berlin’s two zoos became showcases for their respective political systems, explains J. W. Mohnhaupt, author of The Zookeepers’ War. The West Berlin Zoological Garden, or Zoo Berlin, is the most biodiverse zoo in the world. It was founded in 1844, making it the oldest zoo in Germany. It was heavily damaged by Allied bombs during World War II; only 9...
Instead of stockpiling nuclear arsenals, warring zoo directors Heinz-Georg Klos in the West and Dathe in the East collected animals. “Their rivalry would become a proxy struggle with each director an emblem of his city’s politics….victory was no longer smarter if currying favor with visitors, but rather of pleasing the bigwigs in Bonn and East Berl...
It’s not hard to imagine why zoos were a welcome distraction from the walls surrounding Berlin. As historian Mieke Roscher writes: “the feeling of being enclosed within a border was everywhere. In a sense, West and East Berlin were themselves two zoos.” “East Berliners were walled in and so were West Berliners. They both needed a sense of escape,” ...
When the Berlin Wall fellin 1989, there was much debate about which zoo would close. Neither did. “For the older generation, there is still a sense of that old identity, that ‘if we lost this, it would mean yet again a wiping out the history of the communist East,’” says Harrison. Berlin’s two zoos are just one of the duplicates and even triplicate...
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History. Third Reich. World War II. Postwar period. Zoo. Aquarium. Animals. Incidents / Criticism. See also. References. External links. Berlin Zoo. Coordinates: 52°30′30″N 13°20′15″E. The Berlin Zoological Garden (German: Zoologischer Garten Berlin) is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany.
Feb 6, 2019 · 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 reassessed as plans to restore the zoo were considered. Of the zoo’s former inhabitants only 91 out of over 4,000 animals remained.
The Zoologischer Garten Berlin was opened in 1844. During World War Two the zoo was badly damaged by allied bombardments and fierce combat during the Battle of Berlin in April-May 1945. Less than 100 of the 3,500 animals survived the war. Soon afterwards the zoo was reopened.
