Posted on 05/24/2020 4:02:01 PM PDT by EdnaMode
An alligator rumored to have once belonged to Adolf Hitler has died at quite a remarkably old age.
The reptile -- who goes by Saturn -- recently passed away in the care of the Moscow Zoo, which he called home since the 1940s after he was discovered by British soldiers and gifted to the facility shortly thereafter ... once Germany suffered defeat in WWII, of course.
Saturn is actually said to have survived a bombing at the Berlin Zoo back in 1943 -- where he had been living after being shipped there from America in the mid-'30s -- and somehow lived among the ruins until he was found again in 1946. After that, Russia was his new home.
For some reason ... rumors swirled in Moscow that the alligator might've once been part of Hitler's personal collection of exotic animals. The Moscow Zoo says it became an urban legend but doesn't elaborate on why something like that might've even been thought.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
There’s a German comedy called “Crime Scene Cleaner”.
One epi has Schotty (only main character) going to clean up a bloody accident at a private club.
The club turned out to be basically an upper class Nazi hang out.
Their prize possession was a dried out deuce allegedly dropped by Hitler in his bunker.
Bizarre, at least in tv world, enough?
Don’t forget the deadly cold front that hit Europe during the Battle of the Bulge in December, 1944.
I think Germans had more exigent concerns than an alligator, assuming it wasn’t used for food by then.
I was thinking the same thing. I’m calling’s BS on this story.
I am a Mississippi State bulldog
The alligator’s connection to Hitler was confirmed by the KGB who said they obtained a signed confession from the reptile just before it expired.
They had heating technology in Berlin and Moscow in the 1940s.
I didn't know they lived that long. I wonder if said crocodile left any "memoirs." Lol They'll have to check his stomach.
Oh, that’s a CRUEL shot: Hillary Hitler!
Smiling!
The Russians may have attacked the location of the zoo, but it was a zoo in name only; the animals had been gone for some 18 months before the Russians arrived.
Mussolini had pet lions.
https://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/untamed-lowcountry/article189514254.html
Yeah, I’ve seen you hanging out with the Aubies over at Wayne’s.
You didn’t think a Gator would miss the opportunity to dump on the Buttsniffers did you? :^)
I’m sure they did, but at the end of WW II, it was the apocalypse, Europe was destroyed but somehow an alligator survived....just not buying it.
I live in Florida, I’m quite familiar with alligators, but as I said earlier, at the end of WW II, Europe was bombed into the stone age, food was scarce, infrastructure was gone, but somehow an alligator survived...possible maybe, probable highly unlikely....
Ironically, I’ve been kicked off the Mississippi State message boards. They prefer kissing Ole Miss Rebel butt.
There are some turtles that are known to live 150+ years. Apparently a number of other marine species can live 200+ years.
Uhhhhh, never mind....
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