Word: tiergarten
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...this enterprise in a country whose housing situation is critical. Some took pleasure in forecasting what they would do to the statue as soon as the Russian occupation was over. "We will blow it up. We will do a better job with that than the British did with our Tiergarten-Bunker...
...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...