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How Hitler's 'favourite' reptile became a geopolitical symbol

Apr 17, 202554 min
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<p>Saturn, an alligator that was supposedly Hitler’s favourite animal was 'liberated' from the Berlin zoo when the Red Army invaded Germany at the end of the Second World War. The reptile was relocated to Moscow where it died in 2020. But with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Saturn’s story has become once again a symbol in wartime geopolitics. <em>*This episode originally aired on Jan. 10, 2023.</em></p>
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