https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20201012/hundreds-evacuated-in-high-risk-baltic-sea-bomb-difusal Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:31:36 +0200 hundreds-evacuated-in-high-risk-baltic-sea-bomb-difusal Experts have safely defused seven World War II bombs found on the future location of Tesla's first European factory, just outside Berlin. https://www.thelocal.de/20200127/seven-wwii-bombs-defused-at-teslas-factory-site-near-berlin Mon, 27 Jan 2020 09:45:33 +0100 seven-wwii-bombs-defused-at-teslas-factory-site-near-berlin The uncharacteristically hot weather sweeping across Germany has broken records and almost sold the country out of cooling fans and beer bottles - but it has also unearthed a few secrets. https://www.thelocal.de/20180802/bombs-away-elbe-evaporation-leads-to-discovery-of-wwii-munitions Thu, 02 Aug 2018 18:49:03 +0200 bombs-away-elbe-evaporation-leads-to-discovery-of-wwii-munitions Police in Cologne faced a logistical nightmare on Thursday night as they kept having to delay a controlled explosion of a World War II bomb. https://www.thelocal.de/20140131/onlookers-delay-wwii-bomb-controlled-explosion Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:11:00 +0100 onlookers-delay-wwii-bomb-controlled-explosion UPDATE The World War II bomb which exploded western Germany on Friday afternoon, killing one and injuring 13 people was probably a British aerial mine, experts said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20140103/digger-driver-dies-after-hitting-wwii-bomb Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:17:00 +0100 digger-driver-dies-after-hitting-wwii-bomb A suitcase which caused police to shut down Düsseldorf airport in fear it was a bomb contained nine kilos of flour and cinnamon. Over 10,000 passengers were affected and 140 flights cancelled. https://www.thelocal.de/20131001/52177 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 10:55:00 +0200 52177 A 100-kilo World War II bomb found near Berlin's main train station was successfully defused on Wednesday, but rail passengers still faced delays for the rest of the day. https://www.thelocal.de/20130403/48903 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:16:00 +0200 48903 25,000 people have lost their usual weekend lie-in after they were evacuated from their homes on Sunday morning in Hannover in one of the biggest bomb disposal operations in the city's history. https://www.thelocal.de/20130106/47163 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:16:00 +0100 47163 German security officials on Tuesday said one man had been arrested amid a police investigation into a Salafist terrorist connection to a suspected explosive device found at the Bonn train station. https://www.thelocal.de/20121211/46701 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:55:00 +0100 46701 The city of Duisburg came to a standstill on Tuesday night when the city was evacuated in order to safely detonate a half-tonne World War II bomb. Thousands of residents spent over seven hours in emergency shelters. https://www.thelocal.de/20121128/46429 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:16:00 +0100 46429 A new initiative by German states will attempt to make the federal government pay for the disposal of thousands of tonnes of World War II allied bombs and weapons, an expensive and dangerous job currently financed by local authorities. https://www.thelocal.de/20121026/45799 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:57:00 +0200 45799 Thousands of residents were evacuated early on Friday morning after an unexploded US bomb was discovered in Potsdam, eastern Germany - the latest of a series of recent World War II bomb finds. https://www.thelocal.de/20121012/45513 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:11:00 +0200 45513 An American World War II bomb left a huge crater in a pedestrian zone and two houses seriously damaged – but no-one injured – after experts conducted a controlled explosion on Monday night in western Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20120918/45037 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:04:00 +0200 45037 The detonation of a WWII bomb in Munich's Schwabing district on Tuesday caused massive damage to surrounding buildings, leaving a huge, unanswered question about who would pay to fix it all, as well as a big hole in the ground. https://www.thelocal.de/20120829/44651 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:01:00 +0200 44651 Structural engineers were examining buildings in central Munich on Wednesday after the detonation of a 250-kilo World War II bomb on Tuesday night. The huge explosion caused a fireball, smashed windows and set nearby buildings alight. https://www.thelocal.de/20120829/44627 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:45:00 +0200 44627 Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in Munich on Monday night after the disposal of a 250-kilo World War II bomb proved more complicated than expected. “It could go off at any time,” said a fire department spokesman. https://www.thelocal.de/20120828/44617 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:10:00 +0200 44617 German police kicked in doors on Monday to force uncooperative residents to take shelter while a World War II bomb was being defused. One man who refused to open his door turned out to be dead. https://www.thelocal.de/20120731/44075 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:00:00 +0200 44075 Berlin’s Kreuzberg district on Thursday faced a massive evacuation effort that let to the removal of thousands and the disruption of transport after construction workers found a 250-kilogramme bomb from World War II. https://www.thelocal.de/20110526/35281 Thu, 26 May 2011 16:50:00 +0200 35281 Police evacuated 12 buildings in the northern German city of Kiel after finding a large stash of home-made explosives in a man’s apartment on Monday night. https://www.thelocal.de/20110524/35207 Tue, 24 May 2011 10:15:00 +0200 35207 Germany has moved a step closer to ridding its soil of atomic weapons, bowing out of the “nuclear sharing” agreement under which its fighter jets can be used to drop US bombs, media reported on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20101006/30289 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:25:00 +0200 30289