Last month, an 1,100-pound unexploded bomb from WWII, believed to be of American origin, was uncovered near Cologne, Germany, where a construction crew had been digging. Some 3,000 people were ...
Large parts of Dresden's Old Town were evacuated on Wednesday as experts sought to defuse an unexploded World War II bomb found during clearance work for a collapsed bridge. Some 17,000 people were ...
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Hidden Bunker and WWII Gear Discovered Along Hitler’s Westwall

While exploring the remnants of Hitler’s Westwall, we stumble upon a hidden bunker packed with WWII relics. Nearby barrack ...
You can easily overlook it, the entrance to the Tiefbunker (deep bunker) Steintorwall located right next to Hamburg's central train station. Guests at a Turkish snack shop must shuffle their chairs ...
More than 30 shipwrecks have been discovered hidden in a lake in Germany, officials announced this week, including one vessel believed to be a steamer that was destroyed by an air raid in World War II ...
This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. BERLIN — On a Wednesday afternoon in late August, I traveled to a tourist attraction in the heart of Germany's capital. If I ...
In the final days of World War II, one name echoed through the chaos of Hitler’s bunker — Felix Steiner. Once a respected German general and commander of the Waffen-SS Wiking Division, Steiner became ...