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Yeah its amazing how all over Europe after 70 years they still regularly find bombs.

The Wehrmacht also laid millions of mines but thanks to German obsession with administration those were all removed in a few years (with the "assistance" of German POWs)




> Yeah its amazing how all over Europe after 70 years they still regularly find bombs.

Note in various places it's WW1 munitions as well (and some of those being chemical and biological weapons).

There was just so much used in both wars that it's practically inevitable, because much is now below the surface and exposed through ploughing.


An interesting movie which has the removal of the mines as topic is "Land of mine" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3841424/




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