Fliegerbombe in Teltow
US 250-kg unexploded 'dud' bomb
„Der Zünder wurde entschärft. Der Sperrkreis ist aufgehoben.“
– Berlin-Teltow, May 2025–
When History meets present day…
An unexploded aerial bomb was discovered during construction work in Berlin-Teltow (Potsdam-Mittelmark) last Monday (May 19, 2025). The American 250 kg ‘dud’ found (as unexploded bombs are known) has been successfully defused yesterday afternoon by an KMBD (Kampfmittelbeseitigungsdienst) team, which reported to be a troublesome activity due to the bad shape and jamming of the explosive-fuse, taking more than an hour to be deactivated and safe.
The bomb, with a live fuse, was found during construction work beneath the former border strip on Kirschblütenallee in Teltow, it seems that the American-built artifact just partially exploded when landed at that point, remaining silent during 80 years buried there.
A 600-meter exclusion zone around the site was established for the defusing work by Polizei authorities starting Wednesday early morning for safety reasons. More than 5,500 people had to leave their homes yesterday morning in the Berlin Steglitz-Zehlendorf district and Teltow before the defusing work started (3,800 and 1850 respectively.) The exclusion zone has already been reopened without incident.
Estimates suggest that between 135,000 and 270,000 tons of unexploded bombs remain just in Germany.
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