An alligator that was long - rumored to be Adolf Hitler ’s pet ( which is likely   to be out of true ) has pass away in a Moscow zoological garden at the eld of 84 .

Saturn the gator had an eventful biography . He was take over in Mississipi , USA ,   in 1936 before being taken to Germany , where he lived in the Berlin Zoo . This was n’t the ideal time to grow up in Germany , even if you ’re   for the most part unaware of what ’s going on by sexual morality of being an alligator .

During the state of war , the zoo washit by bombardmentsfrom Allied forces , especially during the " Battle of Berlin " campaign in 1945 , one of the last major offensives of World War II . Buildings were damaged during the maraud as it was hit with more than 1,000 incendiary bombs . creature were injured and toss off and their inclosure obliterated .   While the aquarium was destroyed on November 23 , Saturn the gator survive and lived through the rest of the war . He wasone of only   96 animals out of   16,000at the zoological garden that did .

Saturn in his Moscow home .

In July 1946 , Soviet soldiers take Saturn from Berlin to Moscow menagerie , where he lived out the rest of his life , with zookeepersdescribing himas " a very peaceful fictional character " apart from one incident " in 1970 , when he almost seize with teeth off the arm of a young guard who was too inexperienced and tried to flow him out of his mitt . "

It was   when he was first moved to Moscow that urban legends begin to distribute that Saturn had once belong to to Adolf Hitler himself .

" Almost immediately , the myth was yield that he was allegedly in the assembling of Hitler , and not in the Berlin Zoo , " the zoological garden said in a statement confirming his death , adding “ fauna are not involved in warfare and political sympathies and it is absurd to find fault them for human wickedness , " just in causa anybody ( you have it away how remark sections on the cyberspace can be ) was   worried the animal himself was acting on behalf of the Nazis during his clip in Berlin .

The zoo said they were honour to have kept the " choosy " eater for the remaining 74 year of his life story , and described how he had a good storage for his favorite keepers and loved to be massaged with a brush .

" It is a great felicity that each of us could calculate into his eyes , [ or ] just quiet be near [ him ] , " they wrote . " He control many of us as children . We trust that we did not disappoint him . "