Cologne is paralysed by UXB
NewsThree unexploded World War Two bombs have caused the cancellation of tonight’s WDR Symphony concert in Cologne.
The whole town centre has been shut off since eight this morning, with some 20,000 residents evacuated.
It is the city’s biggest clearance in 80 years.
The bombs are American 2,000 pounders.
Bomb and Circumstance
20.000 were evacuated . Problem solved , people can return home . But there are plenty more “leftovers” from the war to discover
According to the Stürmische Beobachter, the operation was part of a contemporary work to be performed at the opera house. When the audience had filled the auditorium, it was announced that the ‘total work of art’ was about to be detonated as a symbol of transgression of historic and ideological boundaries and that its sound was a symbol of the desintegration of society and a warning against authoritarian reign in the near future. When the listeners were evacuated and mixed with the inhabitants of the city center, they were offered an opportunity to take notice of the undercurrent of collective frustration as having been present undetected for a long time.
They were fortunate the bombs could be defused. Some have to be exploded in place.
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