Berlin Zoo
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The Berlin Zoological Garden is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany. Opened in 1844, it covers 35 hectares and is located in Berlin's Tiergarten. With about 1,380 different species and
The Elephant Gate: one of two zoo entrances
Share of the zoo, issued 1 December 1909
A series of photographs taken at the Zoological Garden depicting the Kawesqar, 1881
In April 1931, a group of Sara-Kaba people arrived at the Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin, accompanied by the zoo’s director, Ludwig Heck. The women had covered their lip plates with scarves. (Photo from 1931)
Zoo Tower
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The Zoo flak tower was a fortified flak tower that existed in Berlin from 1941 to 1947. It was one of several flak towers that protected Berlin from Allied bomber raids. Its primary role was as a gun
Berlin Zoo
…the zoo area through 30 April, and safety measures forced the zoo keepers to kill some predators and other dangerous animals. Next to the zoo stood the Zoo Tower, a huge flak tower that was one of the last remaining areas of Nazi German resistance against the Red Army, with its bunkers and anti-aircraft weapons…
Destroyed IS-2 tanks after the Battle of Berlin, May 1945
10.5 cm flak on the Zoo tower
The Zoo tower in 1946
German soldiers on quad-mounted 2-cm-Flak, 16 April 1942