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An alligator rumoured to have belonged to Adolf Hitler has been preserved forever after dying this year at Moscow Zoo.

The 84-year-old reptile was found by British soldiers in Berlin after the Second World War and passed to the Red Army.

Named Saturn, the alligator was taken to the Soviet capital in 1946 and became an icon of Moscow Zoo for generations of children.

The beast’s skin was donated to the city’s Darwin Museum and after work by taxidermists the reptile will go on display in the New Year when Covid-19 restrictions are eased.

Known to have been a pre-war star attraction at Berlin Zoo in Nazi Germany, the story also circulated that the reptile had been in the Führer’s personal pet collection, as suggested by famous Russian writer Boris Akunin.

Dmitry Vasilyev, a vet at Moscow Zoo, said there was no doubt that Hitler admired the alligator. Saturn died in May, shortly after the 75th anniversary of the tyrant’s defeat.

The alligator was born in the wild in Mississippi in 1936 before being caught and shipped to Berlin Zoo. There is mystery over Saturn's whereabouts after Berlin was bombed from November 1943.

He was eventually found by British soldiers three years later. One theory is he “hid in basements, dark corners and sewage drains”, another that he was in the menagerie of a senior Nazi.

In the early 1990s, Saturn witnessed the Soviet collapse and reports said he had “tears in his eyes” when tanks shot the nearby Russian parliament because it “reminded him of the bombing of Berlin”.

The museum said: "The installation of Saturn in the permanent exhibition is the culmination of six months of work by our taxidermist. “No reptile of the museum has such a rich biography.

“Moscow Zoo entrusted us with perpetuating the memory of the alligator Saturn. “He was, without exaggeration, a legend of the zoo and had seen a lot in his lifetime.”

Museum official Dmitry Miloserdov said it was “the second birth of Saturn - the story of how ‘Hitler’s alligator’ became immortal.”

Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13446237/adolf-hitlers-alligator-saturn-preserved-forever-after-dying/

German kilishi

Interesting!



NAtionale soZIalist alligator.

Adolf Hitler lives forever.

Ok

Am grateful to nairaland for the insight so far....

Robert1da:
Adolf Hitler lives forever.

In your life

OYINBO PEOPLE SEF

ANOTHER GENERATION GO COME RECOVER AM AFTER 70 MILLION YEARS

DenreleDave:



They are wrong, this is a crocodile... Not an alligator... An alligator is very small just like lizard... For the 1st time, the Germans are wrong

Just like I can't spot this difference BTW a Hoe and a runs girl


Same way I can't differentiate BTW Alligator and crocodile

U be oga for this thing o

Why? Because it's Adolf Hiltlers' ? Funny. They should have mummified adolfs Hiltler himself.

I wonder why they want to keep the memory of that killer.

DenreleDave:



They are wrong, this is a crocodile... Not an alligator... An alligator is very small just like lizard... For the 1st time, the Germans are wrong

Just like I can't spot this difference BTW a Hoe and a runs girl


Same way I can't differentiate BTW Alligator and crocodile

Olodo ni bobo yi sha

That's an alligator
Crocodile can't stand with hand stretched

Alligator is far more bigger than making it comparison to lizard

Make your findings about them, alligators can be 15ft big or bigger

Ok

Robert1da:
Adolf Hitler lives forever.

In your head.

It must have fed fat from captured Jews, Hitler would have surely instructed that.

Biglittlelois:



In your head.

In my head, in your head
And in history.

[s]

Robert1da:


In my head, in your head
And in history.

[/s]


Only in history, nobody gives two fvcks about him in our everyday lives.

DenreleDave:



They are wrong, this is a crocodile... Not an alligator... An alligator is very small just like lizard... For the 1st time, the Germans are wrong

Just like I can't spot this difference BTW a Hoe and a runs girl


Same way I can't differentiate BTW Alligator and crocodile

Cruise

If you must eat a frog, eat the fat one. Despite the fact that Adolf didn't contribute to humanity, at least he is remembered today as the legendary tyrant who caused the death of over 20 million n
Jews.

If dude was still alive, he will have a verified twitter account, a strong Instagram fan base, with lots of hoes running up and down like our Nigerian Ladies.

You'll be seeing news like, "Peter Okoye paid Adolf Hitlar a visit in his mansion in Germany".

The world doesn't remember cowards. You either beat the system, join the system, or you tire it down.

But you can choose to die a mediocre life, where in two generations, your name is forgotten, and the only sign you ever existed in this vast universe is a tombstone in a cemetery.

That's if they even give you a tombstone!

DenreleDave:



They are wrong, this is a crocodile... Not an alligator... An alligator is very small just like lizard... For the 1st time, the Germans are wrong

Just like I can't spot this difference BTW a Hoe and a runs girl


Same way I can't differentiate BTW Alligator and crocodile

The major difference is that Alligator teeth doesn't show when its mouth is closed but Crocs teeth are vivid when it is closed. You grasp?

In about 500 years time another group of mad scientists will still discover this one and start telling us how it is one of the wonders of the world!

GodWrites:


If dude was still alive, he will have a verified twitter account, a strong Instagram fan base, with lots of hoes running up and down like our Nigerian Ladies.

The belittling of your kind from a typical black man

Your level of thought process is disgusting, a brain very minute even for a new born.

DenreleDave:



They are wrong, this is a crocodile... Not an alligator... An alligator is very small just like lizard... For the 1st time, the Germans are wrong

Just like I can't spot this difference BTW a Hoe and a runs girl


Same way I can't differentiate BTW Alligator and crocodile

guy the smaller one wey you the talk about na monitor lizard.
alligator the big like crocodile.

Biglittlelois:



The belittling of your kind from a typical black man

Your level of thought process is disgusting, a brain very minute even for a new born.

Here she comes, like the wolf she is. What are you gonna do? Devour me like your kind did to Hitler?

We all know that whatever Hitler did, there was a manipulative hoe stirring his reasoning, whispering words, planting thoughts.

I don't pay your kind attention, you're only reacting to your programmed biological needs.

GodWrites:


Here she comes, like the wolf she is. What are you gonna do? Devour me like your kind did to Hitler?

We all know that whatever Hitler did, there was a manipulative hoe stirring his reasoning, whispering words, planting thoughts.

I don't pay your kind attention, you're only reacting to your programmed biological needs.

Really? You had to objectify me using my gender? You are so unwell you don't even know it yet

As much as it is highly impressive that a woman can stir and control(an assumption I presume) the almighty Hitler to go astray(a weakness men of now would never accept it exist), it is also disgusting that you guys keep pushing blame to women for any little woes that befall you, making it seem like you all can't think for yourselves or have a mind of your own,

So who is the weaker and stronger sex now?

Very limited, thoughtless and biased entity.

In about 500 years time another group of mad scientists will still discover this one and start telling us how it is one of the wonders of the world!

DidYUknow:
Lovely..

I liked the Pic cos it's the kinda stuff I love to dispute and ponder over. (purely on principle and Cos it tickles my mind.)