Meanwhile, they defused a 2200 bomb in my city

[DFW]

During construction work in Düsseldorf yesterday, construction workers came upon an unexploded British bomb from World War II. In all 30,000 people were evacuated, and the operation took three times as long as it should have because some locals refused to leave their homes on a Saturday. How dare they discover a bomb on a weekend, right? Blow me to bits if you must, but don‘t you DARE interrupt my breakfast. German is as German does.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I am amazed, but maybe I shouldn't be.

Anyone can be stubborn, but the Germans are famous for this.

It's unfortunate that their stubbornness caused such a delay, but I'm glad the bomb was defused safely.

[DFW]

5. Indeed.

I think I married the only German to whom flexibility is not a dirty word.

[Boomerproud]

2. Stay safe and well DFW.

Julie Andrews wrote in her bio that she was sleeping one night during the war and heard a whistling sound outside and her mother told her to go back to bed. The next morning they found an unexploded bomb in their garden.

[DFW]

6. England was the recipient of the V-1 and V-2 rockets

Germany can be glad that most Brits didn‘t know what the „V“ stood for, or they might not have been left with one building standing.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. "Retribution Rocket."

[underpants]

3. I'm surprised we don't hear about this happening in Schweinfurt

They used to say every plane kept a bomb to drop on Schweinfurt hoping to hit the ball bearng plants. They never did but a lot of bombs were dropped there.

[COLGATE4]

4. A gift from the British airline pilot

who a few years after the war was having trouble with landing instructions at Dusseldorf, earning him a tongue lashing from the German ground controller. Irritated, she pointedly asked him "Have you not flown into Dusseldorf before?", to which he responded "Yes, but that time I wasn't trying to land"?

[HeiressofBickworth]

7. I lived in Germany 1965 to 1967

In Stahl, a little village outside of Bitburgh in what was then West Germany. My husband was in the USAF, stationed at Bitburgh. I recall that some kids playing in the river across the street found a hand granade in the water. They reported it but no big deal was made of it. USArmy came and took it away. It was a German hand granade. Being just 20 years after the war, it probably was quite dangerous. There were houses in the village that still had pock marks from bullets. Patton's army went through the area from what i read .

On weekends the thing to do was pack a picknic and go into the woods. It was called bunker hunting. Found one. Really weird to go into.

I was very young at the time. (Just 19). We used William Schrirers book Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as our travel guide. Really good history lesson. Ive been fascinated with the war ever since. I'm a huge .MOVIE buff and i PArticularlLY Like movies about the lives of ordinary PEOPLE who did extraordinary things. RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS. My favorite German movie was Phoenix. There was one out a couple of years ago about aGernan soldier who had deserted calledThe Captain. It was atrue story.very disturbing about how someone became so brutal.

I cery much enjoyed my time there and i look forward to your posts about your life there. Thank you.

[Coventina]

8. My husband was in Augsburg for a business trip a few years ago.

And a similar thing happened, a large bomb was found while doing street repairs.

The whole area had to be shut down while it was dealt with.

The Germans he was with told him it was probably an American bomb, as most of the British bombs had disintegrated over the years.
(I guess this current story proves them wrong about that).

So, my husband apologized for the inconvenience, but they all laughed and told him it was fine.

(my husband is very different from me, I would have never had the guts to make a joke like that)