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Europe's devastating wildfires unveil deadly new threat - buried bombs from WWI & #WWII
Devastating #wildfires that have ravaged #Europe over summer have been unveiling a potentially deadly new threat - unexploded ordnance from WWI & WWII
#Fires have burned through huge areas of land in western Europe in recent months as the continent has battled scorching #temperatures & #droughts, and #firefighters have faced the additional threat of #exploding shells.
euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08…
#ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #CorporateGreed
Europe's wildfires unveil deadly new threat - bombs from WWI and WWII
Droughts across Europe have also been churning up military vehicles and weapons from the era, with shrinking rivers revealing German warships, a Wehrmacht motorbike, and a bomb. #EuropeNewsNathan Rennolds (euronews)
This Box of 300 Love Letters Showed Up Out of the Blue. Who Was the Whimsical World War II Soldier Who Wrote Them?
Nobody knows who dropped Speedy Weber’s correspondence at a USO office in 2022. Researchers have finally tracked down two living relatives who remember him
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This Box of 300 Love Letters Showed Up Out of the Blue. Who Was the Whimsical World War II Soldier Who Wrote Them?
Nobody knows who dropped Speedy Weber's correspondence at a USO office in 2022. Researchers have finally tracked down two living relatives who remember himEllen Wexler (Smithsonian Magazine)
Vast German wildfire forces evacuation in Eifel forest
Friday's fire is taking place on the site of one of the longest and most costly single battles in the US military's history.That's why the area is strewn with unexploded munitions from World War II that are at risk of exploding, both aiding the fire's spread and potentially endangering emergency services.
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest, or Schlacht im Hürtgenwald in German, was a three-month push by US forces. They were trying at first to pin down German forces and stop them providing reinforcements in the nearby Battle of Aachen, and then later to push through the forest and advance to the Rur River.
The September-December 1944 battle tried to get through heavy fortifications as part of what the Allies knew as the Siegfried Line, a series of defensive structures that served as one of Nazi Germany's last effective lines of defense as Allied forces tried to move east toward Berlin after the D-Day landings.
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Germany: Vast wildfire forces evacuation in Eifel forest
Firefighters tackling the biggest forest fire in the history of North-Rhine Westfalia say residents are unlikely to be able to return on Friday amid high temperatures, humidity and wind. DW has the latest.Mark Hallam (dw.com)
TIL: a part of the German Atlantik Wall was also in Denmark. for me it was only in F / NL / B....
(6 pics, Mastodon only shows 4, you need to see the original post)
Crazy how huge it was...
landmarkscout.com/stutzpunkt-k…
#WWII #WW2 #denmark #atlantikwall #PUNKdotPHOTOS #history #fcknzs #afdverbotjetzt
Stützpunkt Königstein – Marine Küstenbatterie Løkken Nord – Løkken-Furreby, Denmark | LandmarkScout
This Marine Küstenbatterie (M.K.B), or naval coastal battery, of the German Kriegsmarine was part of Stützpunktgruppe (Stp.Gr.) Løkken of theLandmarkScout
mastodon.social/@benroyce/1163… benroyce@mastodon.social - I don't understand this
#Germany's reckoning for #WWII was large
But #Japan's was not
Thus Japan continues to have issues on the topic
But it's just so fucking stupid. There's nothing to gain from an incomplete reckoning
It's just so nasty
" #NewZealand ‘ #comfortWomen’ statue could jeopardise diplomatic relations, Japan says
Planned statue symbolising the #women forced by Japan into sexual slavery during the second world war has raised the ire of Tokyo’s embassy"
theguardian.com/world/2026/apr…
New Zealand ‘comfort women’ statue could jeopardise diplomatic relations, Japan says
Planned statue symbolising the women forced by Japan into sexual slavery during the second world war has raised the ire of Tokyo’s embassyEva Corlett (the Guardian)
/cf. Birkenau Extermination Camp - Oswiecim, Poland; 21 December 1944
ChronoLink: mprove.de/chrono3d?m=NA305908&…
Chronoscope World 3D
time travel on old maps and books | Eine interaktive Zeitmaschine mit historischen Karten und alten BüchernChronoscope World
Ein FLAK-Bunker aus dem Zweiten #Weltkrieg, denke ich, unterhalb der #Weidelsburg, Anfang Februar. Alice war nicht da, aber der Boden war noch gefroren.
#myphoto, #Schleichwege, #Nordhessen
#Satire, #Humor, #Politik, #politics, #WWII, #Bunker, #Geschichte, #history, #LostPlaces, #Foto, #photo, #Natur, #nature, #WolfhagerLand, #Radtour, #Fahrrad, #biking, #Hessen, #fedibikes, @fedibikes_de group, @fedibikes group