{"id":9890,"date":"2018-05-25T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=9890"},"modified":"2018-05-25T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:07:20","slug":"bombenentscharfung-in-dresden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/bombenentscharfung-in-dresden\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombenentsch\u00e4rfung in Dresden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, something remarkable happened in Dresden, a city in\u00a0<em>Sachsen\u00a0<\/em>(Saxony), close to the Polish border. A\u00a0<em>Blindg\u00e4nger\u00a0<\/em>(dud bomb) from the\u00a0<em>Zweite Weltkrieg\u00a0<\/em>(Second World War)\u00a0was found close to the\u00a0<em>Altstadt\u00a0<\/em>(old city center) during\u00a0<em>Bauarbeiten\u00a0<\/em>(construction work). A bomb that was intended to destroy and kill and did not detonate 75 years ago. What did they do with it? Find out here!<\/p>\n<h2><strong><em>Gesprengt!<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nervenkrieg in Dresden: Diese Fliegerbombe stellt Kampfmittelexperten vor gro\u00dfe Probleme\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1V7s0MlBF70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, a <em>Fliegerbombe <\/em>(aerial bomb) was found in Dresden, very close to the <em>Hauptbahnhof <\/em>(central station), in a densely populated area. The <em>Fliegerbombe<\/em>, which had a <em>Gewicht <\/em>(weight) of <em>f\u00fcnf Zentner <\/em>(five hundredweights \u2013 250 kg, or about 550 lbs), scared the <em>Bev\u00f6lkerung <\/em>(population). Over 9,000 people were <em>evakuiert<\/em> (evacuated) to prevent any harm in case of an explosion. For two days, they had to find an <em>Unterkunft<\/em> (accommodation) elsewhere. If the <em>Fliegerbombe <\/em>exploded, it would send material in a radius of 800 meters (2600 ft)!<\/p>\n<p>So how was this delicate <em>Bombe <\/em>handled?<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the <em>Fliegerbombe <\/em>was covered with heavy materials to reign in a possible explosion. Then, the <em>Entsch\u00e4rfer <\/em>(diffusers) tried to separate the <em>Z\u00fcnder <\/em>(ignition) from the <em>Sprengstoff <\/em>(explosive) from a distance, after a robot applied it to the bomb.<\/p>\n<p>However, this failed, and there was a <em>Teilexplosion <\/em>(partial explosion). It was <em>unklar <\/em>(unclear), whether there could be another <em>Explosion<\/em>. For a day, the <em>Bombenmaterial <\/em>(bomb material) burned. The <em>Polizei <\/em>(police) then decided to use a <em>L\u00f6schroboter <\/em>(extinguishing robot) to stop the fire.<\/p>\n<p>They then found out that the <em>Bombe <\/em>would not explode again, because only a part was <em>detonativ umgesetzt <\/em>(detonatively converted). That was the <em>Teilexplosion<\/em>. The rest just served as burning fuel, but could not explode anymore. This is called <em>Deflagration<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it was safe the remove the <em>Bombe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>&#8220;Blindg\u00e4nger&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_9893\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/JyepCoDqics\" aria-label=\"Blind 1024x1024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9893\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9893\"  alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/blind-1024x1024.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/blind-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/blind-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/blind-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/blind-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/blind.jpg 1355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Blind-goer&#8221; (Image by novia wu at Unsplash.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Shortly, what about that word,\u00a0<em>Blindg\u00e4nger<\/em>? It literally means &#8220;blind-goer&#8221;, so a bomb that does not reach its goal of detonating, so it &#8220;went blind&#8221;. However, some\u00a0<em>Bomben<\/em>, such as the\u00a0<em>Fliegerbombe\u00a0<\/em>used in this case, were sometimes intentionally not detonated immediately, so that they could be detonated strategically at a later point in time.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><em>Nichts Seltenes<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_9892\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blindg%C3%A4nger#\/media\/File:Fundort_Luftmine_04_Koblenz_2011.jpg\" aria-label=\"1280px Fundort Luftmine 04 Koblenz 2011 1024x682\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9892\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9892\"  alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/1280px-Fundort_Luftmine_04_Koblenz_2011-1024x682.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/1280px-Fundort_Luftmine_04_Koblenz_2011-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/1280px-Fundort_Luftmine_04_Koblenz_2011-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/1280px-Fundort_Luftmine_04_Koblenz_2011-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/1280px-Fundort_Luftmine_04_Koblenz_2011.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preparations to diffuse a bomb in Koblenz, 2011 (Image by Holger Weinandt at Commons.wikimedia.org under license CC BY SA 3.0 de)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is not at all <em>selten <\/em>(rare) for such <em>Bomben <\/em>to be found. Due to the enormous amount of\u00a0<em>Bomben\u00a0<\/em>(bombs) that were dropped in the\u00a0<em>Zweite Weltkrieg<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Blindg\u00e4nger\u00a0<\/em>are still found now and then, especially during\u00a0<em>Bauarbeiten\u00a0<\/em>as in Dresden. They are often buried close to the surface. However, this one was particularly difficult due to its location: Not only is evacuating 9,000 people quite the ordeal, but it was made even harder because many of them were <em>Bewohner <\/em>(inhabitants) of an <em>Altenheim <\/em>(retirement home).<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense that such <em>Operationen <\/em>occur on a daily basis. Below is a table that shows the estimated tonnage of bombs that were delivered into German territory in the <em>Zweite Weltkrieg<\/em>:<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 417px\" width=\"631\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"302\"><strong><em>Jahr<\/em><\/strong><strong> (year)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"302\"><strong><em>Tonnen <\/em><\/strong><strong>(tonnage)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"302\">1940<\/td>\n<td width=\"302\">10,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"302\">1941<\/td>\n<td width=\"302\">30,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"302\">1942<\/td>\n<td width=\"302\">40,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"302\">1943<\/td>\n<td width=\"302\">120,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"302\">1944<\/td>\n<td width=\"302\">650,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"302\">1945<\/td>\n<td width=\"302\">500,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"302\"><strong><em>Gesamt <\/em><\/strong><strong>(total)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"302\">1,350,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"302\"><strong><em>Blindg\u00e4nger <\/em><\/strong><strong>(<em>gesch\u00e4tzt <\/em>\u00a0(estimated))<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"302\">135,000-270,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The amount of not yet discovered <em>Blindg\u00e4nger <\/em>in 2013 was <em>gesch\u00e4tzt <\/em>at 100,000. <em>J\u00e4hrlich <\/em>(annually), about 5,500 <em>Blindg\u00e4nger <\/em>are <em>entsch\u00e4rft <\/em>(diffused) in Germany!<\/p>\n<p>The reason that so many bombs did not detonate is not only\u00a0<em>technisches Versagen\u00a0<\/em>(technical failure),\u00a0but also things like\u00a0<em>Fehlbedienung\u00a0<\/em>(incorrect operation),\u00a0<em>ung\u00fcnstige Einsatzbedingungen\u00a0<\/em>(unfavorable use conditions) or even\u00a0<em>Sabotage\u00a0<\/em>(sabotage) at the production stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are there\u00a0<em>Blindg\u00e4nger\u00a0<\/em>in your country? How often are they diffused, are there infamous examples in your country? What do you call them? Let me know in the comments below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/blind-350x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/blind-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/blind-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/blind-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/blind-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/05\/blind.jpg 1355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Yesterday, something remarkable happened in Dresden, a city in\u00a0Sachsen\u00a0(Saxony), close to the Polish border. A\u00a0Blindg\u00e4nger\u00a0(dud bomb) from the\u00a0Zweite Weltkrieg\u00a0(Second World War)\u00a0was found close to the\u00a0Altstadt\u00a0(old city center) during\u00a0Bauarbeiten\u00a0(construction work). A bomb that was intended to destroy and kill and did not detonate 75 years ago. What did they do with it? Find out here! Gesprengt!&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/bombenentscharfung-in-dresden\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":9893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[551758,421737],"class_list":["post-9890","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-language","tag-news","tag-second-world-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9894,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890\/revisions\/9894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}