Nicholas Goldberg: In Europe, the war in Ukraine raises the question — is the past really past?
by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Apr 01, 2022
3 minutes
AURINGEN, Germany — I was visiting family in a village not too far from the city of Wiesbaden, Germany, when I learned that an unexploded World War II bomb had been found just a few kilometers away, near the gas station we passed on the road into town.
It was British-made, weighing about 275 pounds, presumably dropped during the war by the Royal Air Force — just one small remnant of the 2.7 million tons of explosives dropped by the British and the Americans on Europe between 1940
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