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The rebuilt Elephant Gate at the Berlin Zoo. Photo reprinted with the permission of Wikipedia.
The rebuilt Aquarium at the Berlin Zoo. Photo reprinted with the permission of Wikipedia.
The Kaiser-Wilhelm Memorial Church, left as a war monument.
A monument to "Bobby," the first gorilla at the Berlin Zoo. After his death he was replaced with "Pongo," who was bayonetted to death in his cage.
"Knautschke," photographed in 1955, being bitten on his rear by "Bulette," one of his many offspring.
Knautschke clebrates his 40th birthday, 1983.
Monument to "Knautschke" the hippo, who was born during an air raid and lost his mother, Rosa, to shelling.
Monument to the baby "Orje," who died in 1938.
Original location of the Zoo Flak Tower, now part of the Zoo. (coordinates 52.5100 degrees north by 13.3358 degrees east, from Google Maps.)
Tablet at the Berlin Zoo, commemorating its former Jewish stockholders.