I am not student of this area, but it seems that elephant.se site maintains database of elephants in zoos worldwide, from past till today. Here is card of "Siam"amateur wrote: But the elefant killing incident has been quoted in several "totally useless facts" sites.
http://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1492
, the only one on Berlin Zoo that seems to have survived till post war years. Seems pretty thorough site, they list from where elephant came (Circus Krone), etc..
Here are the cards of other elephants of Berlin Zoo, that died in bombing on 22.11.1943 (Yep - date matches also - one of the heaviest attacks on Berlin ever), or its consecuences:
Wastl http://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1443
Aida http://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1200
Jenny II http://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1250
Indra http://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1189
Taku II http://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3788
Birma http://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3789
Toni III http://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3952
Lindi http://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3956
From Berlin Zoos official site:
Before the outbreak of World War II the mammal population numbered 1,196 animals of 385 species, and there were 2,519 birds of 926 species. World War II proved fatal to the zoo. The first bombs fell in 1941 ***. Further heavy bombardment came in 1943 and 1944. A large number of buildings were destroyed. Virtually the whole infrastructure was laid to waste. And solely ninety one animals survived the chaos – including two lions, two hyenas, one Asian bull elephant, one bull hippopotamus, ten hamadryas, one chimpanzee, one Oriental white stork, and one shoebill.
http://www.zoo-berlin.de/en/understand/ ... e-zoo.html
*** It seems that during 1940 the Berlin Zoo was not hit by Bomber Command, atleast they failed to accomplish anything worth mentioning.
After surfing death year logs of elephant.se database, it seems that also Munchen, Vienna, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Nurnberg, and propably many other zoos, animal parks, and circuses had elephants. I looked death years only between 1942-1945, and this is long living species.amateur wrote: only elefant in Germany:-(
I dare to call this myth busted. Germans had enough elephants to cause small African kingdom an acricultural disaster by stomped and eaten crops , and atleast in Berlin Zoo, none of the elephants was killed by Bomber Command actions in 1940.
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