Even 73 years after the end of the war, such discoveries remain common in major German cities.
Downtown Berlin was largely reduced to rubble in hundreds of Allied bombing raids during the war and street-to-street fighting between the Nazi and Soviet armies in the final days of the conflict.
It's estimated that more than 5 per cent of the bombs dropped on Berlin failed to explode due to a variety of reasons, including faulty fuses, poor assembly and bad angle of impact.
The city estimates at least 3,000 bombs, grenades and other munitions are still buried.
> Even 73 years after the end of the war, such discoveries remain common in major German cities.
> Downtown Berlin was largely reduced to rubble in hundreds of Allied bombing raids during the war and street-to-street fighting between the Nazi and Soviet armies in the final days of the conflict.
> It's estimated that more than 5 per cent of the bombs dropped on Berlin failed to explode due to a variety of reasons, including faulty fuses, poor assembly and bad angle of impact.
> The city estimates at least 3,000 bombs, grenades and other munitions are still buried.
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