Around 5,000 people had to leave their homes in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel on Monday night for the defusing of a World War II bomb, with consequences stretching into Tuesday morning.
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 new museum dedicated to the long-silenced trauma of German civilians forced to flee eastern Europe at the end of World War II opens next week after decades of wrenching debate.
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.
Hundreds of residents were evacuated on Monday
as Polish military divers began a delicate operation to defuse a massive World
War II bomb in a channel near the Baltic Sea.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged Germans to "defend democracy" on the 75th anniversary of the destruction
of Dresden in World War II on Thursday, as the emboldened far right rattles the political establishment.
The destruction of Dresden in 1945 is still deeply rooted in Germany's memory. Even 75 years later, the struggle for neutral interpretation remains, and Neo-Nazis want to turn guilt to innocence.
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.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday asked Poland's forgiveness for history's bloodiest conflict during a ceremony in the Polish city of Wielun, where the first World War II bombs fell 80 years ago.
Eight decades after the first Nazi bombs fell on Poland, echoes of the blasts can be heard in the bickering between Warsaw and Berlin over the possibility of billions of euros in war reparations.
Germany on Wednesday returned a painting looted by the Nazis which ended up in the spectacular art hoard of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Third Reich-era art dealer, to the family of a French real estate broker.
An heiress of the Bahlsen biscuit empire in
Germany has apologized for claiming her company treated forced labourers
"well" during World War II, and said she should learn more about her firm's history.
Greece's parliament on Wednesday began a debate on a resolution to demand the payment of German war crime reparations, an issue long disputed by Berlin.
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.
After it was revealed last week that fifteen people in Sweden receive a war pension from Germany, authorities in Berlin said that the individuals receiving the pensions were not members of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the Nazi Party's SS organisation.
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.
A former Nazi concentration camp guard Tuesday voiced his shame at having been part of the SS but told a German court he was unaware of the systematic killings there.
Warsaw on Wednesday played down a row with Germany over its demand for World War II reparations, with Poland's foreign minister saying the issue should not hinder good relations between neighbours.
Germany on Friday dismissed Poland's threat to demand new talks for World War II reparations from Berlin, saying the issue was already settled in 1953.
