Allied planes dropped around 1.3 million tonnes of bombs on Germany in WWII, with many unexploded remnants still regularly being found today – over 75 years later. In fact, around 2,000 tonnes of explosives are found in Germany every year.
A massive World War II bomb found in Germany's financial capital Frankfurt was safely detonated in the early hours
of Thursday, the city's fire service said, allowing tens of thousands of evacuated residents to return to their homes.
Some 8,000 residents of the city of Göttingen have been able to return home after a bomb disposal unit defused four WWII bombs discovered during building work.
German experts defused a World War II bomb in Cologne on Tuesday that had forced the evacuation of thousands of office workers and disrupted rail and ship traffic.
Passengers were warned to expect delays and cancellations on parts of Germany's rail network on Tuesday after a bomb was discovered in the western city of Cologne.
Around 14,000 people were evacuated Sunday from their homes in the German city of Dortmund after local authorities identified suspected World War II bombs in the city centre.
Police in Berlin on Tuesday arrested a
26-year-old Syrian man accused of planning an Islamist attack, with
prosecutors saying he had begun to acquire chemical materials for a bomb.
More than 15,000 people evacuated from their homes in the German city of Hanover were free to return early Tuesday after city officials said an unexploded World War II bomb had been defused.
About 10,000 people had to leave the centre of the northern city of Rostock on Wednesday morning because of the planned disposal of an aerial bomb from World War II.
German prosecutors have formally charged a Russian Islamist and acquaintance of Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri with plotting an explosives attack, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The controlled detonation of a World War Two bomb in Lingen, Lower Saxony, has caused property damage throughout the city, and the evacuation of 9,000 people.
The air bomb was unearthed during routine construction work near Mönchengladbach on Friday. Now it will shut down part of the city as it is deactivated on Monday.
A German man who launched a shrapnel bomb attack on the team bus of football club Borussia Dortmund last year, wounding two people, has been given a 14 year jail sentence.
