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Around 8,200 people living in the northern German city of Kiel were temporarily evacuated from their homes on Sunday as a bomb disposal team defused a 250-kilogram device dating back to World War II. Police in the port city, which was a major naval base during the war, tweeted that the operation had been completed in the Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf district without incident. The bomb was uncovered during construction work. On Tuesday, another British bomb was defused in the Schreventeich district in the city. Some 3,000 residents had to be temporarily evacuated. Unexploded ordnance left over from ......

A World War II aerial bomb discovered in the German city of Hanover was safely detonated on Sunday after thousands of residents were cleared from the area, according to local fire brigade officials. Around 8,000 people had to leave their homes in the central German city and move to a safe distance of 1 kilometre while technicians investigated and carried out a controlled detonation of the 500-kilogram unexploded bomb. Bags with tens of thousands of litres of water had been placed around and over the site of the bomb to direct the blast wave. This was also to prevent the very dry grass at the s......

Since Sunday morning, many people in Berlin have been commemorating the end of World War II in Europe 77 years ago at various memorial sites, under a heavy police presence due to possible tensions over the war in Ukraine. At the Soviet Memorial in Treptower Park, several hundred people laid flowers and commemorated the fallen during the morning. According to a police spokesperson, many people also came to the Soviet Memorial in the central Mitte district in the morning. Some laid wreaths. As at the other sites, the events were taking place without disruption so far, a police spokesperson said.......

As Dresden, the capital of Saxony, marked the anniversary of the World War II firebombing of the city, Saxon Premier Michael Kretschmer said he is "extremely concerned" about the large numbers of Russian soldiers deployed near Ukraine's border. "We want everything to be done to prevent a warlike confrontation," Kretschmer told dpa on Sunday as Dresden marked the anniversary of the firebombing. "We know here in Dresden how terrible the consequences of such a war are," he said. War only ever claims victims, Kretschmer added. He joined a human chain following a memorial service held for the victi......

On the outskirts of Dresden's Old Town, hundreds of neo-Nazis gathered in the morning for a "commemoration in honour of the Dresden air war dead of February 13, 1945." Police estimated the number of participants in the procession at up to 500, which grew to around 750, who walked into the city centre to the sound of Wagner music and loud counter-protests nearby from hundreds of people. At the Baroque landmark Zwinger palace, hundreds of counter-demonstrators loudly opposed the "silent march," which was already accompanied by shouts of "Nazis out" at the roadside. A helicopter circled over the ......

Senior officials and representatives of the German War Graves Commission commemorated the victims of the Allied bombing raids on the city of Dresden of February 13-14, 1945, who are buried in the city - mainly firefighters, soldiers and policemen. In addition to Dresden Lord Mayor Dirk Hilbert, representatives of the state of Saxony, of which the city is the capital, remembered the dead in a traditional ceremony at Heide cemetery. "With regard to the destruction of Dresden, we must not only look at 1945, but must broaden our perspective to the time between 1933 and 1945," Hilbert said in a sho......