Second World War engulfed a third of the world and though the theater of the war was distant the people of Madras suffered in many ways.
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But the greatest tragedy to the fabric of Madras happened when corporators started worrying about what would happen if the bombs fell on the zoo and the lions and tigers got out. So the entire collection of carnivorous animals were shot dead by a platoon of the Malabar police.
--- --- from an article in The Hindu by Historian V Rama Krishnan
Anybody know what happened to the Zoos in Europe during WWII ?