Last week, reports said that the Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg plant was being searched for explosives after signs of potentially unexploded bombs, dating from WWII, were found.
Volkswagen is currently expanding its headquarters, but during the early phases of development, construction workers have found four suspicious metal pieces scattered around the site. Three of them prove to be “false alarms”, but the fourth was a 250 kg unexploded American bomb – according to a Wolfsburg-area magazine.
Lower Saxony’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians were quickly dispatched, as well as about 100 emergency services personnel, including firefighters and policemen. About 690 area residents had to be evacuated during the bomb’s removal and disarming procedure. The bomb was identified as an aerial unit with an impact detonator.
Throughout the years, many un-detonated World War Two era bombs have been found at Wolfsburg, mainly because the factory that became the birthplace of the people’s car (the iconic Beetle), was used to produce military vehicles during the war – making it a prime target for aerial bomb raids, which did a lot of damage to the plant, though it remained operational.
H/T to Jalopnik!
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