Adolf Hitler 's Alligator is Dead to Me.

Some people use a dog for protection. But I guess this could scare your enemies away, too. But you better keep it fed well; you wouldn't want it getting hungry around you.

Is Saturn a Nazi war criminal?

Mein Fuhrer!

He was cute

He had a hot ass but he couldn't live forever.

Saturn bought the zoo!

So young.

Was it suicide? Coronavirus?

The phrase "who goes by Saturn" keeps cracking me up. It makes it sound like he chose to go by Saturn but that wasn't his birth name.

Can we do a benefit, like Gator Aid?

It was the Third Reich. He went by Saturn because his real name was Mort Goldberg.

R11, was there a final solution to the alligator problem?

What was on his i-Pod?

Crocodile Reich

I've read more than my share of Hitler and Nazi literature and this is the first time that I've ever heard of Hitler's keeping a collection of exotic animals. So, I'm skeptical of this alleged association.

I don't trust Russians to be truthful about anything. This is a lie.

Coming soon to the History Channel: Nazi Gator

I'm surprised that an alligator can survive Russian winters.

The Russians named him Saturn. To Hitler, he was Jackbootsie Gumdrop

The alligator was not Hitler’s private pet. It was just one of many in the zoo in Berlin, having been shipped there from Mississippi in the 30s.

It was one of the few zoo animals that survived the bombing of Berlin in 1945. Most of them died. The British found it as well as a python or anaconda and gave the animals to the Soviets. They shipped the animals back to Moscow, where they were adopted by the zoo.

Originally nicknamed “Hitler” because he was from Berlin, the gator eventually came to be known as Saturn. He was a popular attraction there for an incredible period of time, outlasting the Soviet Union itself and the Cold War. He was a fixture of the zoo so long he outlived many generations of zoo keepers.

Not bad for an immigrant from Mississippi.

Forgot to mention that Saturn was attacked on multiple occasions by drunken Russian zoo visitors — once so seriously that he hovered on the brink of death for months.

Keep Hugo Boss away from the body!

[quote] Forgot to mention that Saturn was attacked on multiple occasions by drunken Russian zoo visitors

How did they attack him? Why do you know so much about Saturn? Tell us more! MORE!

Imagine walking through the rubble of a bombed out Berlin and finding an alligator...

... and worst of all, being British....

I find this story hard to believe.

See you später, alligator.

After a "Heil", crocodile.

The zoo is in Berlin’s Tiergarten city park, in an area that was once the hunting area for the Elector of Brandenburg. (Like Hyde Park was once Henry VIII’s hunting ground.)

Immediately after the war, the starving Berliners ate many of the surviving zoo animals. They also denuded the park of trees for firewood, to keep from freezing. The park today has many mature trees and does not show obvious signs of having been reforested only 70 years ago.

At 6:30 in the link, is a momentary shot of the zoo in 1936, featuring an elephant who was no doubt delicious.

[quote] Immediately after the war, the starving Berliners ate many of the surviving zoo animals.

How did the alligator find things to eat? Was it eating dead people?

Why didn’t they bring him to a more civilized European country? Poor gator getting attacked by drunks

Custody of the Alligator was decided at Yalta.

M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p heil!

Wikipedia's got all the answers!

How could an alligator survive wandering around Berlin for three winters from 1943 to 1946?

Hitler had 2 pet dogs named Blondie and Dagwood. However, Blondie was the male and Dagwood was the female. Don't ask - this is Hitler we're talking about.

Was he large enough to have a nice matching set of luggage made out of him?

Mel Brooks is busy rewriting "The Producers" to add a song for the gator.

Perhaps the alligator was living in the sewers?

Secret Alligators of the SS, tomorrow night on the History Channel!

The story about him roaming the streets of Berlin really makes me think there’s may be truth to a lot of the cryptological sightings across the world. Like panthers in England

So young.

Will he be canonized?

I’ve really grown to love this alligator over the course of this thread. Rip Saturn. He was a survivor

Gators can go up to three years without eating.

When he opened his mouth a purse fell out.

[quote]Gators can go up to three years without eating.

Wow! I can't even go three MINUTES!

[quote]Gators can go up to three years without eating.

Bless The Beasts And The Children!

Second interesting thread today. Thanks op

Agree, this is a delight

Why didn't Hitler just buy the zoo??

[quote] Keep Hugo Boss away from the body!

I really HOPE you mean, “because he’ll make a wallet out of it.”

I know Russian drunks are mean, but beating up an alligator!

[quote] Gators can go up to three years without eating.

According to the Wikipedia article, Saturn got depressed and went four months without eating and almost died.

See you later, alligator.

80 years from now: "A sloth rumored to have once belonged to Donald Trump has died at quite a remarkably old age."

Alligators are ugly.

84 years in a zoo.... pretty impressive. Sounds like he had a good life

[quote]80 years from now: "A sloth rumored to have once belonged to Donald Trump has died at quite a remarkably old age."

Do you think Barron will live that long?

[quote] Do you think Barron will live that long?

In captivity the retard can live a long happy life.

When Katrina left the New Orleans Aquarium abandoned, as I recall, most of their wildlife died, but the author wrote that there was hope for the alligators, since they can basically hibernate if it gets too cold, even below freezing; or food is too scarce. I’d guess they don’t do well if it gets too hot, though.

Berlin must really have been a nightmare in 1945.

Oh, snap!

Now I want an alligator!

My condolences...

What's the difference between alligators and crocodiles?

The skulls are significantly different, R64 - put simply, alligators have broader heads.

[quote]Adolf Hitler 's Alligator is Dead to Me.

Definitely in the running for best Datalounge thread title of all time.

[quote] When Russian tanks were moving down the Garden Ring during the 1993 constitutional crisis, Saturn cried out because of the vibrations, which a zookeeper thinks reminded him of the Battle of Berlin.[11]

[quote] In the 1950s, the United States gave the Soviet Union a younger, female alligator as a gift.[3][11] She was named Shipka, and she and Saturn began mating, but they did not produce any offspring as all of Shipka’s eggs were infertile.[3][11] Shipka, who was thirteen years younger than Saturn, later died, and Saturn was so distressed by her death that he refused food for a time.

Aww. He sounds quite emo for an alligator.

God needed another Nazi Gator

If he had actually belonged to Hitler, you just know Israeli nazi hunters would have been all over this. Think “Saturn in Jerusalem”.

WW for the thread title alone. This thread is a balm to my soul at this depressing moment in time... 😂😂😂

"How could an alligator survive wandering around Berlin for three winters from 1943 to 1946? "

Russian Lamb coats, Rose.

Alligators are much more cold-tolerant than crocodiles. There are only two species of Alligators: the American alligator and the highly endangered Chinese alligator. The oldest recorded American alligator at the Cincinnati Zoo was 'Tojo', who was supposedly 81 when he died. I remember looking for him every time we'd visit the Zoo. Alligators are known to be protective mothers to their hatchlings. Auf verschiedene, Saturn.

Alligators in the snow (captive) in Colorado.

They always look so happy

[quote]The oldest recorded American alligator at the Cincinnati Zoo was 'Tojo', who was supposedly 81 when he died. I remember looking for him every time we'd visit the Zoo.

Tojo AND Hitler? Didn't Mussolini have any pet reptiles?

Mussolini had a pet Narwhal named Walter.

That gator don’t got nuthin’ on Robert Clive’s pet turtle Adwaita - he outlived not only Clive, but the Raj itself!

I’ve never been a fan of alligators until now. “Saturn“ was a beautiful color.