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Thousands of tonnes of WWII munitions corroding in the Baltic

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The Baltic Sea bed is littered with mines, bombs and chemical weapons left over from the Second World War that could cause an environmental disaster as they corrode over time, a leading Polish newspaper has reported.

Bomb squad called after curious son hands horrified dad WWII missile found in grass

A family had the fright of their lives when their son turned up with an unexploded WWII bomb.

Polish destroyer to be honoured on UK isle after saving its coastal town from Hitler’s bombs

VIDEO: On the night of May 4-5, 1942, the crew of ORP Błyskawica repelled a Luftwaffe attack on Cowes, a town on Britain’s Isle of Wight that lies off the south coast of England. To mark the 80th anniversary, the Polish warship ORP Wodnik will arrive in the port of Cowes on Thursday morning.

Angelic girl who melted hearts singing ‘Let it Go’ in Kyiv bomb shelter escapes to safety of her grandmother in Poland

VIDEO: After little Amelia Anisovych melted hearts with her haunting rendition of hit Disney song ‘Let it Go’, many feared she would become another victim of Putin’s savage bombing of the Ukrainian capital. But now it has been revealed that the seven-year-old is safely with her grandmother in Poland. 

Flight to Krakow force-lands in Berlin after bomb alert

A false bomb alert forced a Sunday Ryanair flight from Dublin to Krakow in south Poland into an emergency landing in Berlin, the French AFP news agency reported on Monday morning.

Gov't agencies evacuate after bomb alarm

The offices of Poland's Supreme Auditing Board (NIK), Supreme Court and National Council of the Judiciary (KRS) had to be evacuated on Tuesday morning after bomb alarms in all three buildings.

Polish military divers neutralise one of WWII's largest bombs

The detonation on Tuesday concluded the operation to remove the dangerous 5.4-tonne Tallboy bomb at the bottom of a channel in Swinoujscie, a Baltic port city in the far northwest of Poland. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

Specialists prepare biggest underwater WWII bomb detonation in Europe as over 750 locals evacuated

VIDEO: If the unexploded ‘Tallboy’ bomb dropped by the RAF during World War Two goes off, a seismic wave could threaten nearby port infrastructure and bomb shrapnel could break through the water’s surface threatening local residents. Above ground, the bomb has a destructive range of two kilometres.

Gdynia cleared as huge WWII parachute bomb weighing ONE TONNE is detonated 3km out to sea

The operation to move the bomb, which was most likely dropped by Hitler’s Luftwaffe at the start of the war, began at 8am and took nearly six hours before it could be exploded.

Room of failed Hitler assassination plot recreated in fascinating detail

The reconstruction at the site of the Nazi leader’s Wolf’s Lair HQ, used archive documents, photographs, witness testimony and the knowledge of local guides to recreate the room as it was in July 1944.

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Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters

Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in depth, the cylindrical metal canister was found in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS as a brothel.

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