"Hitler's alligator" has died in Moscow zoo. He was 84!

Rus TV says Saturn born in US in 1936, moved to Berlin zoo but escaped in bombing raids. In 1946 British soldiers found him & handed to Soviets.

Surely one of the great 20th century alligator lives

https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=3267552

Saturn the recently deceased alligator has a Wiki entry and his biography is EPIC. I hope Hollywood comes calling soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(alligator)

Epic multi-generational novel plot here.

In 1993, when Russian tanks were moving down the Garden Ring after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Saturn cried out because of the vibrations, which a zookeeper thinks reminded him of the Battle of Berlin.

The tale has everything: love and loss with a war / Cold War historical backdrop

In the 1950s, the US gave Soviet Union a younger, female alligator as a gift. Shipka, who was 30 years younger than Saturn, later died, and Saturn was so distressed that he refused food for a time.

After living in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and then dealing with this, Saturn must really have thought humans to be an awful species.

Once, a drunk visitor threw a boulder on his head to wake him up, after which zoo veterinarians fought to keep him alive for months.