The Tiergarten is Berlin's Central Park; the word translates as "garden of animals" or beasts and refers to the time it was used as a royal hunting preserve. In the 1930s a zoo with cages of animals (beasts) was added. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, the Tiergarten serves as another focal point for the ugliness that is rising, the beautiful homes and the embassies located outside its boundaries. |
were planted by the starving population in Berlin. The war destroyed many statues and only
700 trees remained standing out of 200,000 in the Tiergarten.