Interesting Facts

11th March 2004 - Ten bombs were planted on rush-hour trains in Madrid, by terrorists. Killing 191 people and injuring 1,800.

The state of Brandenburg surrounding Berlin is one of the most bomb-contaminated regions in Europe. (In Brandenburg alone, an average of 631 tons of old munitions from the two world wars and from Soviet army exercises in East German times are found every year by builders, bomb location squads or even worse, children playing.)

According to the Spiegel more than 2,000 tons of munitions from the two world wars are recovered in Germany each year. (Barely a week goes by without a city street or motorway being cordoned off or even evacuated in Germany due to a UXB being discovered. Between 1991 and 2007 10,733 tonnes of munitions were disposed of, at a cost of €259 million.)