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Through the lion gate : a history of the Berlin Zoo / Gary Bruce.

by Bruce, Gary, 1969-

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Oxford University Press, c2017.

590.7343155 B886t

Zoologischer Garten (Berlin, Germany) -- History.

Zoos -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.

Zoos -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History.

Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and customs.

Berlin (Germany) -- History.

9780190234980 (hc)

0190234989 (hc)

xii, 303 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Out from the Island of Peacocks -- The human zoo -- To the Zoo! : animals and society in the imperial capital -- An end to the sighing of the animals -- The Nazi ox : the Zoo and Hitler's worldview -- Animals among the beasts : the Zoo descends into war -- The hippo and the panda : a tale of two zoos -- Epilogue: Of trams and tortoises.

As an institution with broad public reach, the Berlin Zoo for more than 150 years helped to shape German views not only of the animal world, but of the human world far beyond Germany's borders. Entwined with the fate of the German capital, the zoo suffered near complete obliteration during WW II, but Berliners resurrected their zoo immediately afterwards, paving the way for it to obtain its current status as the most species-rich zoo in the world.

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