Toytown Germany

On 16.Mar.2004 two unexploded WWII bombs (UXB's) were discovered underneath the building site of Munich's new football stadium. 25 Kg of TNT each. They had to be detonated in a controlled explosion. A total of 440,000 bombs were dropped on Berlin between 1942 and 1945. On average 5% of them failed to explode. That means that 22,000 duds were left buried beneath the rubble. They're still being uncovered on an almost weekly basis. I have been unable to find the figures for Munich. I would imagine that they are substantially fewer UXB's lying around here than in the German capital. But still, if you go digging in your garden, take care!

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Every now and then they still dredge UXBs out of the Thames. Scary to think that in pretty much every part of Europe where they bombed you can still become a casualty of WWII.

Don't forget countries like Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos that had more bombs dropped on them during the Vietnam war than Germany ever did, and they have only had 30 years to clear them

after 1 hour of having our street blocked yesterday i discovered that an old second world war bomb was found. it was diffused ok so i went over for a look. here's the picture I took: ww2 bomb (this is in hagen by the way, near düsseldorf)

Another WWII bomb uncovered in Munich yesterday. It was in the Paul-Heyse-Strasse nr. the Hauptbahnhof. An M103 flying bomb. Still live.

I heard about that...blinkety flip, that's right near my office an' all.
must be loads more buried around not yet found.
you never hear about them going off tho do you, they just get 'found'. phew.

the world war was in what year

Its a terrible memoir of man's desire to inflict harm and suffering on another, even 70 years later they are not forgotten, and still creating the same impact they had 70 years ago