The #ww2 US unexploded aerial bomb found last Monday at Teltow-Berlin has been successfully defused yesterday, it seems that the US-built 250kg explosive 'dud' just partially exploded when landed there 80 years ago.
Sprengmeister Maik Schwitzke (KMBD) with the deactivated bomb/ Foto: Sven Meissner

An aerial bomb #ww2 was discovered during construction work in Teltow on Monday in the Berlin Steglitz-Zehlendorf district. It seems to be an explosive 250-kg bomb. Defusing work is scheduled for today. A 600-meter exclusion zone around the site has been required for it.
#Weltkriegsbombe

The 1905 image on top shows the Tunnelhaus of the elevated railway at Dennewitzstr in Schöneberg. Bottom is a March 2025 photo. The viaduct was reconstructed after the war, not as the residential buildings, hit by bombs during the RAF #ww2 Nov 1943 raids.
Photos: Stadtmuseum Berlin/by the author

Last Sunday during our journey part of the excellent @berlin-1945.bsky.social, we visited several battle damaged points in the Schöneberg district. I had the opportunity then to take this Then/Now picture of a dug in Panther tank from Panzer-Kompanie (bo) 'Berlin' placed there in 1945-March 2025.

Next Sunday (30th March) will be attending one of the interesting @berlin-1945.bsky.social walking tours led by my friend Peter, hope to meet some good mates there.
#berlin #ww2 #berlingeschichte
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Photo: visiting the ruined Chancellery July 1945, still from film. Chronos Media.

This is a warning sign Blindgänger!! Lebensgefahr! (“Unexploded ordnance”) of an unexploded bomb (‘dud’) at Kottbusser Str. 18-19 in the Berlin-Kreuzberg district (notice the U-Bahn highway in the distance).
August 29, 1940 / summer 2024
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Photo: Sammlung Berliner Verlag/Archiv
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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th) the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp to honor the millions of victims of Nazism.
A vertical image of the triangular-shaped camp by RAF 542 Sqn (May 1943), KZ Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, 35 km north of Berlin.

Photo: NCAP

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Another picture of the aftermath minutes later following US bombers dropping their bombs over Berlin-Mitte, May 24, 1944.
Berlin Cathedral in flames and Lustgarten seen from the Altes Museum.
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Photo: AKG-images.

May 24, 1944: smoke and flames engulfed the central dome of the Berlin Cathedral after an Allied bombing raid.
On that day 464 US heavy bombers arrived before noon to bomb the city center, Mitte district being badly hit by a mix of explosive and incendiary bombs.
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Photo: Hulton Archive.

Walking around the modern buildings at Potsdamer Platz, few visitors notice a display case placed a few steps from the access hall of the underground station: a surviving wartime S-Bahn Berlin trademark logo.
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This iconic but staged picture, a Berliner mother, wearing a gas mask, passes the still burning Gloria-Palast Kino at Kurfürstendamm, was taken by German photographer Wolf Strache on November 23, 1943.
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Deutsches Historisches Museum F 62/269

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