Berlin Zoo

Berlin Zoo

Only 91 of the 3,175 animals at the Berlin Zoological Garden survived World War 2. The first 15 minutes of an allied bombing raid in November of 1942 killed 30% of the zoo’s population. Of eight elephants, only one survived.

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