This past Wednesday, Berlin’s Central Station—the largest train station in Europe—was closed after a 220-pound Soviet bomb from World War II was discovered by construction workers. 840 residents were evacuated from the area before the bomb was successfully defused.
Not all such bombs can be defused. This past August, an American bomb discovered in Munich had to be detonated by experts, as you can see in the video above. Approximately fifteen unexploded World War II bombs are discovered in Germany every day. This does not happen where I come from.
To live in Berlin, my favorite place on earth, is to live in a city of scars.
Painting On Scars 