Five Questions with John M. Kinder, author of “World War Zoos: Humans and Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age”

As Europe lurched into war in 1939, zookeepers started killing their animals. On September 1, as German forces invaded Poland, Warsaw began with its reptiles. Two days later, workers at the London Zoo launched a similar spree, dispatching six alligators, seven ...