We definitely are. But we still have that saying. It is believed that the saying comes from and admonition to impatient patients to drink herbal tea and wait for healing. Or maybe, but that's my personal belief, to take on a more Asian approach to things that we impatient Germans want done right here and now.
There is an area in Germany that drinks more tea than the rest of the country, it's called East Frisia, situated to the East of the Netherlands with towns like Emden, Leer and Aurich (if you want to look it up). They were farmers and sailors, that's probably how the tea got there.
Emden was also one of the most bombed towns in Germany. Bombers flying back to England would unload whatever they still had on board over the last town before flying over the Netherlands. However, you don't notice that anymore when you visit the town today, it's a beautiful little place on the sea.
Poor Emden! What an unlucky place to be located. I'm still amazed (although I guess I shouldn't be considering the number of those dropped by all air forces during the war) that they're STILL finding unexploded bombs all over Europe. I wonder how long it will take to find the LAST one? I guess we'll know when they stop finding new ones for a few years....
January 2020: Two 250-kilogram (550 lb) World War II bombs were found in Dortmund forcing the evacuation of 14,000 residents and the closure of the city's main train station. April 2020: A discovery of a 230-kilogram (510 lb) World War II bomb in Bonn was successfully defused but caused the evacuation of 1,200 residents and 200 patients at a local hospital, including 11 people critically-ill with coronavirus. October 2020: 10,000 office workers were evacuated, along with 15 residents in Neukölln, Berlin when a 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) World War II bomb was discovered. January 2021: Over 8,000 people were evacuated in Göttingen after the discovery of four World War II bombs were discovered in the city centre. May 2021: 16,500 people were evacuated when a bomb was discovered in Flensburg. Construction workers were excavating nearby when they found the 250-kilogram (550 lb) device. May 2021: Around 25,000 people were evacuated in Frankfurt after the discovery of a 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) unexploded bomb. October 2021: 2,000 people evacuated in Munich after the discovery of a 75-kilogram (165 lb) unexploded aerial bomb. December 2021: Four people were injured during the construction of Trunk Line 2 after a 250-kilogram (550 lb) bomb exploded in Munich. December 2021: 15,000 people were evacuated in Berlin after the discovery of a 250-kilogram (550 lb) unexploded aerial bomb. August 2022: 12,000 people were evacuated in Berlin after the discovery of a 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) unexploded bomb in Friedrichshain. September 2022: A 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) unexploded bomb was found during construction at a community garden southeast of Berlin's A115 autobahn.
Happens all the time. Most Germans don't even look at those news anymore, unless it's their area and they need to evacuate. And wouldn't it be nice if they knew they had found the last bomb. Though I guess they wouldn't know because nobody really knows how many there are.
It'd be great if they could search for them from orbit and pin-point each one to dig up later. But I guess that kind of technology is decades away still. I imagine it'd take a LOT of computing power to sort out the WW2 bombs from all of the other clutter.... It's true.. When the find the LAST bomb they won't know it for years or even decades afterwards. There will always be the thought that someone, at some point, will find another one somewhere.
They thought they'd found one a few miles away from me whilst building a new shopping centre. After the Bomb Squad arrived and investigated it turned out to be a piece of Victorian drainage pipe. Better safe than sorry though! About 5 years ago in a nearby city they found an unexploded bomb under a school playground when they were doing extension work. It'd been right next to the school for 75 years! Amazing!!
And yes, that happens here all the time that they find a bomb somewhere where you might have passed thousands of times. But most of them would not go off just like that anymore. You'd have to be really, really unlucky. As I say, we don't really see it as a huge threat anymore.
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Yeah, let's see. Or, as we say in German: Wait and drink tea.
Are Germans big tea drinkers? For some reason I thought you guys would be more into coffee....
We definitely are. But we still have that saying. It is believed that the saying comes from and admonition to impatient patients to drink herbal tea and wait for healing. Or maybe, but that's my personal belief, to take on a more Asian approach to things that we impatient Germans want done right here and now.
There is an area in Germany that drinks more tea than the rest of the country, it's called East Frisia, situated to the East of the Netherlands with towns like Emden, Leer and Aurich (if you want to look it up). They were farmers and sailors, that's probably how the tea got there.
Emden was also one of the most bombed towns in Germany. Bombers flying back to England would unload whatever they still had on board over the last town before flying over the Netherlands. However, you don't notice that anymore when you visit the town today, it's a beautiful little place on the sea.
Thanks for that... Interesting!
Poor Emden! What an unlucky place to be located. I'm still amazed (although I guess I shouldn't be considering the number of those dropped by all air forces during the war) that they're STILL finding unexploded bombs all over Europe. I wonder how long it will take to find the LAST one? I guess we'll know when they stop finding new ones for a few years....
I didn't know that about Emden. Wasn't a swath of Berlin recently evacuated after a WW2 bomb was discovered and needed to be addressed?
January 2020: Two 250-kilogram (550 lb) World War II bombs were found in Dortmund forcing the evacuation of 14,000 residents and the closure of the city's main train station.
April 2020: A discovery of a 230-kilogram (510 lb) World War II bomb in Bonn was successfully defused but caused the evacuation of 1,200 residents and 200 patients at a local hospital, including 11 people critically-ill with coronavirus.
October 2020: 10,000 office workers were evacuated, along with 15 residents in Neukölln, Berlin when a 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) World War II bomb was discovered.
January 2021: Over 8,000 people were evacuated in Göttingen after the discovery of four World War II bombs were discovered in the city centre.
May 2021: 16,500 people were evacuated when a bomb was discovered in Flensburg. Construction workers were excavating nearby when they found the 250-kilogram (550 lb) device.
May 2021: Around 25,000 people were evacuated in Frankfurt after the discovery of a 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) unexploded bomb.
October 2021: 2,000 people evacuated in Munich after the discovery of a 75-kilogram (165 lb) unexploded aerial bomb.
December 2021: Four people were injured during the construction of Trunk Line 2 after a 250-kilogram (550 lb) bomb exploded in Munich.
December 2021: 15,000 people were evacuated in Berlin after the discovery of a 250-kilogram (550 lb) unexploded aerial bomb.
August 2022: 12,000 people were evacuated in Berlin after the discovery of a 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) unexploded bomb in Friedrichshain.
September 2022: A 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) unexploded bomb was found during construction at a community garden southeast of Berlin's A115 autobahn.
That last one sounds familiar. I suppose the manufacturers can be proud that their ordnance is still combustible after 80+ years...
Explosive, rather, not combustible.
I think that they would've preferred them to go off when they were dropped - rather than stay in the ground for 75 years!
Happens all the time. Most Germans don't even look at those news anymore, unless it's their area and they need to evacuate.
And wouldn't it be nice if they knew they had found the last bomb. Though I guess they wouldn't know because nobody really knows how many there are.
It'd be great if they could search for them from orbit and pin-point each one to dig up later. But I guess that kind of technology is decades away still. I imagine it'd take a LOT of computing power to sort out the WW2 bombs from all of the other clutter.... It's true.. When the find the LAST bomb they won't know it for years or even decades afterwards. There will always be the thought that someone, at some point, will find another one somewhere.
They thought they'd found one a few miles away from me whilst building a new shopping centre. After the Bomb Squad arrived and investigated it turned out to be a piece of Victorian drainage pipe. Better safe than sorry though! About 5 years ago in a nearby city they found an unexploded bomb under a school playground when they were doing extension work. It'd been right next to the school for 75 years! Amazing!!
True, that would be interesting.
And yes, that happens here all the time that they find a bomb somewhere where you might have passed thousands of times. But most of them would not go off just like that anymore. You'd have to be really, really unlucky. As I say, we don't really see it as a huge threat anymore.
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