'Even if, purely theoretically, he belonged to someone,' the zoo's announcement of Saturn's death asserts, 'animals are not involved in war and politics, it is absurd to blame them for human sins.”
That in itself made Saturn unusual. In the wild, the normal life span for an alligator is 30 to 50 years.Saturn was born in the wild somewhere in Mississippi in 1936 and was shipped to the Berlin Zoo from which he disappeared on November 23, 1943, in the aftermath of an Allied air bombing campaign on Berlin. One bomb directly struck the zoo's aquarium and, according to reports at the time, all of the alligators and crocodiles in captivity there were killed.
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, the alligator Saturn swims in water at the Moscow Zoo, in Moscow, Russia. Many believed the alligator once belonged to Adolf Hitler. He was about 84 years old and died on Friday, May 22, 2020.When he was blasted into freedom in 1943, Saturn was 7 years old, an alligator adolescent. Two-and-a-half years later in June 1946, an almost mature Saturn was discovered and captured by British occupation forces.
"Even if, purely theoretically, he belonged to someone," the zoo's announcement of Saturn's death asserts,"animals are not involved in war and politics, it is absurd to blame them for human sins.”
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