Bomb found at my hotel
I’ve been to Koln is a beautiful city and that cathedral is incredible. Hopefully the bomb threat is just a hoax. Stay safe!
Due to the intense, vicious Allied air-bombing campaign designed by British Air Force general Arthur "Whirlwind" Harris to carpet-bomb German cities, and civilian sites as well as military targets like Cologne, particularly Berlin, Essen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, and Munich, it wouldn't surprise me if their werent other leftover WWII-era unexploded bombs or munitions all over Germany in downtown metro areas, ordinary Germans back yards, businesses, parking lots, sewers, open fields in the countryside especially in more rural areas like Bavaria and Baden. Barbogast, you should tell them how Allied bombers sort of deliberately avoided bombing and destroying the medieval Cologne Cathedral during WWII Allied fire-bombings from late 1942-1945 while most other sections of the city, like other major German cities, were bombed almost to pre-industrial levels.
It's a more scattered example of the unknowable, ungodly amount of bombs, explosives, ordinances from WWI that remain live and unexploded in northeastern France, Flanders region of Belgium that have made the region still one of the most dangerous, risky to live in, over 100 years after the end of WWI. Every year, some farmers or rural French, Belgian civilians still get killed accidentally from undiscovered bombs, grenades, or munitions in areas like Yrpres, Flanders, Passcendale, Amiens, and German, French, and Belgian UN munitions explosive experts detonate tons of unexploded bombs every year and will continue to for likely the next century or so..