Word: tiergarten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British learned something last week about the durability of Nazi military engineering. They set off 50,000 pounds of TNT in order to obliterate a huge concrete flak tower in Berlin's Tiergarten. When the smoke and dust had cleared, the structure merely bulged slightly; it had only been chipped...
Well-Heeled Swans. A few of the beasts lacked friends. From German Tiergarten many a quadruped had vanished into a stewpot. In Vienna a dozen Schonbrunn Zoo camels, whose colorful history included careers in a traveling circus, and a stretch with the Russian Army as gun carriers, ended up as steaks. But in Malmo, Sweden, a bank account established in 1941 by bird-loving citizens to cover the needs of visiting swans had grown to 4,000 kroner (over...
Zero hour had struck. British tanks led the charge, Tommies swept in behind them. Their objective: Berlin's lavish, tree-shaded Tiergarten, center of the city's morbidly flourishing black market...
...week's end, the Tiergarten had regained its dignity. But business still boomed in the Russian zone...
...buildings. Much of the brick and stone, including the marble walls of the Reichs Chancellery, can be used again. A sign on a brick pile says: "These bricks are the property of the city of Berlin. Persons taking them away will be punished." The bullet-clipped trees of the Tiergarten will grow again. The statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I on the Schloss-Platz has its eagles scattered about, but the old man rides as arrogantly as ever...