... I thought inspiring that Saturn when found was given to the red army...
Quatsch wird gelöscht, ohne gelesen zu werden
пора
Kerem jojjenek maskor es kulonosen masho
הִשְׁתַּדֵּל הִזְדַּקֵּן
palma, a paolo shaul םֹשׁ ְרֵגּ
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 8:28 PM <epostboxx@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
While rumaging through the paper-recycling bin for material to line our
compost container, I came across the following news item (on page 27 of
Monday morning's edition of the local Kieler Nachrichten).
A quick search turned up this English-language version of the story
(including a 'tweet' from the Moscow zoo containing a video of Saturn
getting a shampooing):
"'Hitler's alligator' that survived Battle of Berlin dies in Moscow
"An 84-year-old alligator rumored to have once belonged to German Nazi
leader Adolf Hitler died in Russia, the Moscow Zoo announced Saturday.
"Saturn the alligator escaped from a Berlin zoo amid Allied bombing on
November 23, 1943. The 3.5-meter animal appears to have survived on his own
for the remainder of the war until British soldiers discovered him in 1946.
"No-one knows exactly where and how Saturn survived in the intervening
years.
"He was then transported to a Moscow zoo where he has lived peacefully
ever since. Zookeepers say he died of old age.
'Saturn had a long and varied life,' the zoo said in a statement. 'This is
an extremely remarkable age.' Alligators in the wild tend to live a maximum
of 50 years.
The Moscow Zoo posted a video of Saturn on Twitter. 'Moscow Zoo had the
honor of keeping Saturn for 74 years. He knew many of us as children. We
hope we didn't disappoint him,' they wrote."
More - including the video - is to be found at:
https://www.dw.com/en/hitlers-alligator-that-survived-battle-of-berlin-dies-in-moscow/a-53554463
Chris Bruce,
celebrating 75+ years
of liberation from the
brown plague, in
Kiel,
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