Battle of the Third Reich

On October 13, 1940, this day happened to be Sunday. The Berlin Zoo now performs several animal shows every Sunday, attracting a large number of Berlin citizens to take their families to watch.

This is the largest zoo in Germany and the oldest zoo in history. This vast park was a gift from the King of Prussia William IV to the people of Berlin. In the following time, the most famous German designers left their masterpieces here, and became the focus of the entire empire. The beautiful and exotic buildings in the park show the cultural heritage of the German Empire to the world, and they have become the beautiful talk of the people.

This park is located in the southwest corner of the old Berlin city. It was originally a pheasant farm of the Prussian royal family. It provides the royal kitchen with the pheasant and other game birds that are needed every day. Now it is located in the suburban zoo because of the expansion of the city. It gradually became a part of the city center. In those times of lack of entertainment, it became the most popular place for Germans to visit during their leisure time.

Even the German railway system has set up a platform here, which is the famous Berlin Zoo Station in the future.

In the grocery store next to the exit of the train station, John Gold spent fifteen and Fenny bought a travel brochure with the latest version of the city tour map and related famous attractions. Like other Germans who have never been to Berlin, he was full of anticipation and longing for this city. After really coming to the core of this empire, Gold discovered that the rumors he heard before were not No exaggeration, the lively and prosperous imperial capital did not disappoint him.

Gold tucked the travel brochure into the pocket of his jacket and followed the flow of people along the sidewalk in front of the train station toward the south. Originally, the zoo opened a west gate at the location of the train station, but because people rushed to cross the road and affected normal traffic, it was closed for most of the time. All tourists who want to go to the zoo can only bypass the two from the north and the south. Enter at the main entrance.

Gold went to the south gate closest to the train station. The strong man from Herzberg tried to pretend to be a knowledgeable urban dweller, trying his best to restrain himself from being as silly as a country bun. He looked around, but when he turned on Hindenburg Avenue with the flow of people, looking at the bustling streets and the spire of the King William Memorial Church in the distance, Gold still stunned and dumbfounded.

Hindenburg Avenue is lined with five-story Baroque, Rococo, and Victorian buildings, with an eight-meter-wide pedestrian walkway in the middle, a tramway on each side, and car lanes and buildings on the outside Under the sidewalk, the city government of Berlin built a waffle-like but orderly transportation system on this 50-meter-wide street. The shuttle vehicles and the pedestrians and pedestrians walking leisurely constituted a The prosperity of the first-class European metropolis.

Gold walked on the sidewalk in the middle of the road, toward the Gothic spire of the King William Memorial Church in the distance. At this time, he regretted not following the advice of his friend and went to Mr. Bell, who taught Chinese in the village primary school, to borrow him 70% of the new Zeiss camera, otherwise it will be able to take a lot of wonderful photos, so that the group of partners in the village have a good insight.

Going through Karl Gustav Square in front of the church, Gold turned onto Budapest Avenue. In fact, the oriental south gate of Berlin Zoo can already be seen at the door of the church. In the later generations, this beautiful and chic gate was severely damaged, leaving only a part of the base of the main entrance. The supporting ticket and inquiry office building and other buildings were completely disappeared by the Soviet artillery.

These buildings from the top German architects have never been able to be reconstructed, so when people see this south gate in later generations, they will feel that the non-conventional style is a bit abrupt.

And now standing in front of this complete south gate, Gold was fascinated by the whole set of buildings full of rich oriental colors. He had never seen such an architectural form, the green tiled roof and arch The vault eaves reveal an oriental exquisiteness and mystery everywhere.

The main entrance is a gatehouse with an arched eaves. The pedestal is two stone elephants carved in oriental style. Many tourists think that this imitates the Chinese style, but it is very different from traditional Chinese architecture. To make fun of it, foreigners have never seen a real Chinese door.

In fact, they all made a mistake. The style of the south gate of the zoo was not Chinese, but Japanese architecture. To be precise, it was the Japanese Tangfeng architecture. This is from the Japanese roof tower and the imitation of the ticket office building. It can be seen from the arched eaves of the Great Buddha Hall of Todaiji Temple in Japan, but these supporting buildings were eventually destroyed by the war, and the Germans did not rebuild it in the future, because it will remind people of the alliance with Japan. history.

It took seventy-five Finney to buy a ticket, and Golder hurriedly walked around the red fence at the door and strode into the Berlin Zoo he had been yearning for.

There is a detailed map of the zoo in the tourist manual. Gold wants to go to see the famous stone cave pool and Poseidon pool first, and then go back to visit the aquarium.

A group of young people on the roadside dressed in brown stormtrooper shirts were arguing around a map. From the armband, they saw that they belonged to the Hitler Youth League. The tall German farmer stretched out his finger and wiped the silver-plated badge of the Agricultural Self-Government in front of the tube top After this group of noisy and noisy boys, continue to move towards the destination.

Germany won the war and the Germans’ enthusiasm for participating in the Nazi organization became more and more high, especially the new head’s anti-paranoid style, re-enacted more gentle and humanized rules than before, canceled a After a large number of racially rich clauses, some centrists who previously had a bad view of the Nazis were also attracted and willingly joined those national organizations.

Now that the Nazi Party headed by the new head of state is in full swing in Germany, even the most stubborn conservatives in the past also heartily praised the achievements of the head of state, and the style change of the Nazi party has allowed them to see Germany moving towards what they think is good. Hopes, the people’s hearts and consciousness in Germany have been unified to a certain extent.

Hitler’s influence on the Germans is slowly being eliminated. Although the Germans believe that without his leadership, Germany cannot be revived so quickly, but the head’s thinking is a bit too radical, and is no longer suitable for the current Germany. The needs of society.

What the Germans now want is a peaceful and stable development opportunity, and at the same time taste and digest the fruits of victory won in the war, and just experienced a **** war that lasted for more than a year, Germany also has a certain loss, and the people have a part of war exhaustion Emotions, so what is needed now is to recuperate and recuperate, which is really not suitable for the careless tossing like the Hitler era.

Speaking of a pond, there are actually more than a dozen acres of land. A group of ducks and wild geese are happily playing in the pond, and there are more than a dozen proud swans with long curved necks and beautiful swimming in the shade of the lake. Come and go.

Gold carried a piece of bread in his pocket. He broke a small piece and started to tease the duck. Under normal circumstances, this kind of behavior was not allowed by the garden. However, when he saw Gold’s earthy buns, The breeder in charge of the pond opened his eyes.

"Look, look, this gray duck is so beautiful." There was a crisp voice from the ear.

Gold looked down and saw a pretty little girl standing beside him, now looking at the fence probe by the pond.

"That's not a duck, although it looks a bit like it, but it's not a duck." Gold urn said violently that he usually likes children very much, and of course the children in the village also like him very much.

"Oh, it's not a duck, so what is it?" the little girl asked curiously with her face raised.

"Dayan, this is a grey goose." Gold replied, and then he found that the little girl was alone and there was no adult around him.

"My name is John, what's your name?" Before asking someone else's name, you must report your own name. This is Gold's upbringing.

"Mersei Tess, my name is Messei Tess, Mr. John." The little girl was not afraid of life at all, and gave Gold a big sweet smile after speaking, which made the tall and strong German farmer 'S heart almost melted on the spot.