Tellbach, Heinz “Teddy,” 48–49, 156–58
Thailand, 190
Thienemann, Hans-Georg, 126, 227
Tierpark Teletreff, 117
Tierra del Fuego, 136
tigers, 13, 57–58, 99, 114, 139–40, 194
Tjen Tjen (panda), 179, 181
Trans-Siberian Railway, 99
trapos (transport police), 31–32, 119–21, 122
Treaty of Versailles, 36
Treptow, 31, 33, 38
Treskow family, 40, 92
Trümmerfrauen (rubble women), 18
Tuffi (elephant), 63–66, 229
Tutti (badger), 68
Uhlich, Hans Erich, 57
Ulbricht, Lotte, 114
Ulbricht, Walter, 32, 80, 98, 113–14, 127
Ullrich, Wolfgang, 90, 145
United States, 31, 84, 161, 190 deteriorating relations between Soviet Union and, 107–8
Endangered Species Act of, 141
postwar German occupation zone of, 18, 22, 62, 117
Venezuela, 136
veterinary medicine, 3–4, 60, 62, 67, 74, 87, 144, 147, 181, 197, 222
Vienna, 9, 20, 74
Vietnam, 197
vipers, 112
Vogt, Helma, 63–66
vultures, 13, 68, 219
Walter, Kurt, 111, 123
Wannsee (lake), 122
Warsaw, 196
Washington, D.C., 178
Weber, Carl Maria von, 101
Weimann, Arno, 72
Weizsäcker, Richard von, 181–85
West Berlin, 4–6, 71, 157, 161–65 Allied airlift to, 21
Allied troops in, 107–8
American sector of, 31
border crossings to, 108, 109–10, 116, 119
British sector of, 35
Charlottenburg district of, 11, 42
defection of families from East Berlin to, 48, 102–5, 107–8
Department of Finance in, 2
discotheques of, 171–72
economic growth of, 28
Europa-Center in, 161–62, 164, 185
Finance Department of, 203, 211
Grunewald district in, 122
Hansaviertel district in, 11, 72
Marienfelde refugee camp in, 102–3, 104
nepotism in, 172
population of, 173
Rathaus in, 208
Ratskeller in, 106
Savignyplatz in, 185
Soviet blockade of, 21, 22
Urbanhafen neighborhood of, 174
West Berlin Zoological Garden, see Berlin Zoological Garden
Westdeutsche Landesbank, 159
West German Air Force, 179
West Germany, 3, 4, 22, 27, 32, 35, 54–55, 100, 104–8, 122–23, 145, 165, 172, 179 currency of, 99, 139
economic growth of, 83, 130
House of Representatives of, 88
Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Forestry in, 166
steel embargo imposed on East Germany by, 153
Urban Development Department of, 77
whales, 128–29, 131–36, 142, 163
Wieland, Ralf, 75–76, 229
Wilde, Hans-Joachim, 78
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 42
Wilhelma Zoological Garden, 140, 167, 205–6
Willy Brandt (bald eagle), 110–11
Windecker, Wilhelm, 60
Winnipeg, 118, 141
wisents, 87
wolves, 16, 87
World War I, 9, 15, 42 starving of zoo animals in, 9
World War II, 5, 7–17, 21, 37, 40, 61, 83, 116, 176, 222 Allied bombing in, 7, 10–11, 13, 15, 17, 24, 35, 172, 182
Soviet campaign in, 9, 13, 14, 15, 18
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), 86
Wrocław, 147
Wupper River, 64, 65–66
Wuppertal, 61–67
Wuppertal Zoological Garden, 57, 61–62, 65, 67–68
Yan Yan (panda), 225
Zaire, 190
zebras, 24, 68, 84, 91
Zeit, Die, 1, 51–52, 134, 173
Zimbabwe, 193
Zoo, Inc., 216
zookeeping, art and science of, 87, 228
Zoological Garten, Der, 3, 41, 146, 148, 159
Zoological Society of London, 86
zoology, 4, 12, 19, 29, 35, 36, 37, 58, 62, 72, 87, 116, 134, 142, 147, 164, 176, 227
“Zoos and the Environment” conference, 193
Zukowsky, Ludwig, as Leipzig Zoo director, 99
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Names: Mohnhaupt, Jan, author.
Title: The zookeepers’ war : an incredible true story from the cold war / J.W. Mohnhaupt ; translated by Shelley Frisch.
Description: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019. | “Originally published in 2017 in Germany as Der Zoo der Anderen by Carl Hanser Verlag.” | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other titles: Zoo der Anderen, and English
Identifiers: LCCN 2019019661 (print) | LCCN 2019022373 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501188497 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781501188510 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Zoologischer Garten (Berlin, Germany)—History—20th century. | Tierpark Berlin—History—20th century. | Zoos—Political aspects—Germany—Berlin—History—20th century. | Cold War. | Berlin (Germany)—Politics and government—1945–1990.
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