A German zoo is in line for a $22 million (£16.8 million) windfall after an American couple pledged to give their fortune to "someplace where it would do good".
According to a report in Cologne's Stadt-Anzeiger newspaper, the 93-year-old widow Elizabeth Reichert said she intends to make good on her Jewish husband Arnulf's wish to donate millions to the zoo in his city of birth.
The couple met in Cologne in 1944, while Arnulf was hiding from the Nazis. They married and left Germany after the end of the Second World War and emigrated to the United States, via Israel. Arnulf began working in a pet food company before establishing a business of his own.
The couple did not have any children and discussed where to bequeath their fortune before Arnulf's death in 1998.
