Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 379: Travel to the Garden (Part 1)

October 13, 1940, which happened to be a Sunday. The Berlin Zoo now hosts several animal shows every Sunday, attracting a large number of Berlin citizens and their families to watch.

This is the largest zoo in Germany and the oldest zoo in history. This expansive park is a gift from King William IV of Prussia to the people of Berlin. In the following period, the most famous German designers left their masterpieces here, and it became the focus of the entire empire. , The exquisite buildings full of exoticism in the park show the cultural heritage of the German Empire to the world, and become a beautiful talk that the people are reciting.

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 provided the royal kitchen with pheasants and other game poultry that they needed every day. The zoo on the outskirts of the city has gradually become a part of the city center. In those times when there is no entertainment, it has become the most popular place for Germans to visit in their leisure time.

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

In the grocery store next to the exit of the train station, John Gold spent fifteen pfennigs to buy a travel brochure, which contains the latest version of the city tour map and introductions to related famous attractions. Like other Germans who have never been to Berlin, he was full of expectations and yearning for this city. After he really came to the core of this empire, Gold discovered that the rumors he heard before were not different. What an exaggeration, the bustling and prosperous capital of the empire did not disappoint him.

Gold stuffed the travel brochure into the pocket of his jacket, and followed the flow of people along the sidewalk in front of the train station to the south. Originally, the zoo opened a west gate directly opposite the train station, but because people rushed across the road and affected normal traffic, it was closed most of the time. All tourists who wanted to go to the zoo had to detour from the north to the south. Enter the main entrance.

Gold went to the south gate closest to the railway station. This burly man from Herzberg tried hard to pretend to be a well-informed city dweller, trying his best to restrain himself from being like a country. The soil bun looked stupidly around, but when he turned to Hindenburg Street with the flow of people, looking at the bustling street and the spire of the King William Memorial Church in the distance, Gold was still dumbfounded and dumbfounded.

Hindenburg Avenue is lined with five-story Baroque, Rococo, and Victorian buildings on both sides. In the middle is an eight-meter-wide pedestrian walkway. There is a tramway on each side, and a car lane on the outside. As well as the sidewalk under the building, the Berlin city government built a waffle-like traffic system on this fifty-meter-wide street. There are shuttle vehicles and leisurely walking tourists and pedestrians. It constitutes a prosperous scene of a first-class European metropolis.

Gold strolled on the pedestrian walkway in the middle of the road, and walked towards the gothic spire of the King William Memorial Church in the distance. At this time, he regretted not following the advice of his friends, and went to Mr. Bell who taught Chinese in the village elementary school. , Borrow his 70% new Zeiss camera, otherwise you can take a lot of wonderful photos, let the group of friends in the village have a good experience.

Passing through Karl Gustav Square in front of the church, Gold turned onto Budapest Street. In fact, you can already see the oriental south gate of Berlin Zoo at the entrance of the church. In later generations, this exquisite and unique gate was severely damaged, leaving only a part of the pedestal of the main entrance, and its supporting ticket and information office and other buildings were completely wiped out under the bombardment of Soviet artillery.

These buildings from top German architects have never been able to be rebuilt, so when future generations see this south gate, they will feel that the nondescript style is a bit abrupt.

Now when 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 a building form, the roof covered with green tiles. And the arched eaves reveal a kind of oriental delicacy and mystery everywhere.

The main entrance is a gate tower with arched eaves, and the base is two oriental-style stone-carved elephants. Many tourists think that this is a Chinese style, but it is very different from traditional Chinese architecture, so later generations will often see Being teased by Chinese tourists, foreigners have never seen a real Chinese gate.

In fact, they all got it wrong. Back then, the style of the south gate of the zoo imitated was not Chinese, but Japanese architecture. To be more precise, it imitated Japanese Tang-style architecture. This is the Japanese castle tower style of the ticket office building on the side. The roof and the arched eaves of the Great Buddha Hall in Todai-ji Temple in Japan can be seen at a glance. However, these supporting buildings were eventually destroyed by the war, and the Germans did not rebuild them as they were in later generations, because they would remind people of that period. The history of Japan's alliance.

It took seventy-five pfennigs to buy a ticket. Gold raised his chest and walked around the red fence at the door, striding into the Berlin Zoo he had been longing for.

There is a detailed map of the zoo in the travel brochure. Gold wants to see the famous cave pool and the sea **** pool first, and then go back to visit the aquarium.

A group of young people wearing brown stormtrooper shirts on the side of the road are arguing around a map. From the armband, it can be seen that they belong to the Hitlerzhi Youth League. The tall German farmer stretched out his finger and wiped the silver plate of the agricultural autonomous group in front of the tube chest. The badge, bypassing the group of noisy boys, continue to move towards the destination.

Germany won the war, and the Germans’ enthusiasm for participating in the Nazi organization has become more and more high, especially the new head of state, contrary to the paranoid and fanatical style of the past, re-enacted more gentle and humane rules than before. After the cancellation of a large number of racially colored clauses, some centrists who had previously held bad views of the Nazis were also attracted and willingly joined those national organizations.

Now the Nazi Party led by the new head of state is in full swing in Germany, even the most stubborn conservatives in the past have sincerely admired the achievements of the head of state, and the change in the style of the Nazi Party has shown them that Germany is moving towards what they think is good The hope of advancing on the one side of the country, the people's mind and consciousness in Germany have been unified to a certain extent.

Hitler’s influence on the Germans is slowly disappearing. Although the Germans think that without his leadership, Germany cannot be revived so quickly, but the head of state’s thinking is a bit too extreme and he can no longer adapt. To meet the needs of current German society.

What the Germans want now is a chance for peace and stability. At the same time, they can taste and digest the fruits of victory in the war with peace of mind. Moreover, they have just experienced a **** war that lasted more than a year. Germany has also suffered certain losses. Part of the war exhaustion, so what is needed now is recuperation, it is not suitable for the unscrupulous tossing like Hitler’s time ~ IndoMTL.com ~ Said to be a pond, in fact, there are more than ten acres of land in the pond, a group of ducks and geese In the joyful play, there are more than a dozen proud swans, with long and graceful necks, swimming quietly in the shade of the trees by the lake.

Gold carried a piece of bread in his pocket. He broke a small piece and started to tease the ducks. Under normal circumstances, this behavior is not allowed by the garden, but he saw Gold’s mud buns. With a simple and honest appearance, the breeder who manages the pond has his eyes closed.

"Look, look, this gray duck is so beautiful." There was a crisp childish voice in his ears.

Gold lowered his head and looked, and saw a beautiful little girl standing beside him, looking at the fence by the pond at the moment.

"That's not a duck. Although it looks a bit like it, it's not a duck." Gold Urn said in a huff. 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 exactly is it?" the little girl raised her face and asked curiously.

"Great goose, this is a grey goose." Gold replied, and then he realized that the little girl was alone and there was no adult company by her side.

"My name is John, what's your name?" Before asking someone else's name, you must state your name. This is the education that Gold has received since childhood.

"Mercedes, my name is Mercedes, Mr. John." The little girl was not afraid of life at all, she gave Gold a big sweet smile after she said, making tall and strong The heart of the German farmer almost melted on the spot.