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German city evacuates 20,000 after unexploded World War II bombs are found

Authorities in Cologne said this was the largest evacuation of the city since World War II. Unexploded ordnance has commonly been found across Europe.

Fox News on MSN · 2h

WWII bombs found in European city force massive evacuation operation

Three U.S. World War II bombs found in Cologne defused after prompting the evacuation of 20,000 residents and the closure of hospitals, businesses and transportation routes.

CBS News · 3h

3 World War II bombs defused in a German city's biggest evacuation since the end of the war

Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city's biggest evacuation since the end of the war.

Daily Jang11h

WWII bombs discovered in Cologne: 20,000 displaced for bomb defusal

Cologne has begun evacuating more than 20,000 people after three unexploded World War II bombs were discovered in the ...

Knowledgia on MSN9d

Displaced: Germans in Eastern Europe Post-WWII

This video delves into the fate of ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe following World War II, focusing on the mass expulsions ...

The Conversation3mon

‘A miracle of Western tenacity’: how 10 million refugees found homes after World War II

This would have made for an even richer account. The handling of so many displaced persons in the aftermath of a world war is a tale of success: a miracle of Western tenacity, goodwill and old ...

People1mon

Family Matriarch, 99, Who Fled Russia After World War II, Dies After Being Fatally Struck by Allegedly Unlicensed Driver

She came to the U.S. after World War II, when she fled Russia on an escape train to Poland, her family said, per the New York Daily News. In 1946, she ended up in the displaced persons camp ...

Foreign Affairs29d

We Are Still Fighting World War II

World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects ... Borders were obliterated or redrawn during and after the war. Many people who had been displaced no longer knew ...

Seattle Times27d

AP WAS THERE: Journalists chronicled the Nazi surrenders and end of World War II in Europe

REIMS, France (AP) — When Allied forces brought World War II in Europe and the Holocaust ... are the interminable columns of displaced persons of all European nationalities who seem to be ...

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