Unexploded WWII bomb removed in Wroclaw
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
26.08.2014 11:36
Over 100 people were evacuated from two housing blocks in Wroclaw, south west Poland, on Monday afternoon while a WWII bomb was removed.
Sappers remove the bomb, Wroclaw. Photo: PAP/Maciej Kulczynski
Sewage workers found the unexploded bomb, which weighed about half a tonne, within a whisker of the foundations of one post-war block of flats.
The proximity to the foundations made the removal especially difficult, according to police spokesman Wojciech Jablonski.
Sappers spent five hours removing the bomb, which is believed to have been dropped from an airplane in WWII.
Wroclaw had been the German city of Breslau prior to and during the war.
In August 1944, Adolf Hitler gave the order that the city was to be defended as a fortress, and the civilian population was evacuated.
Breslau was the last major Germany city to surrender, raising the white flag on 6 May 1945, just two days before the close of World War II.
During the so-called Siege of Breslau from 13 February 1945 to 6 May 1945, the city was bombarded from the air by the Soviet 2nd Air Army and the Soviet 18th Air Army, as well from the ground by artillery from the Soviet 6th Army. (nh)
Source: RMF FM, TVN