Well I read about this in the Neues Deutschland yesterday after school. The gist of that article was that the zoo never even planned to put the cudly little Knut down and made the environmentalist look like an idiot. They also quoted the zoo director as saying that there were never any plans to put him down especially since he's an indangered animal and so on. I can't remember any very specific details from the other article, but what're you going to do.

Oh yeah, Neues Deutschland is a socialist paper so you never know....