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Saturn escaped from Berlin Zoo when it was bombed – however he didn’t come from Hitler.
An alligator who survived World War 2 in Berlin and was rumoured – wrongly – to have belonged to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has actually died in Moscow Zoo.
” Yesterday morning, our Mississippi alligator Saturn passed away of old age. He was about 84 years of ages – an extremely respectable age,” the zoo stated.
Saturn was gifted to Berlin Zoo in 1936 not long after he was born in the United States. He left the zoo being bombed in1943
British soldiers discovered him three years later and offered him to the Soviet Union.
How he spent the stepping in years constantly remained a mystery, however given that July 1946 the alligator has actually been a struck with visitors in Moscow.
” Moscow Zoo has had the honour of keeping Saturn for 74 years,” the zoo said in a declaration.
” For us Saturn was a whole period, and that’s without the slightest exaggeration … He saw many of us when we were kids. We hope that we did not disappoint him.”
The zoo reported that Saturn knew his keepers,