World War II bomb disposal in Europe

[1] In the United Kingdom, the German Luftwaffe dropped more than 12,000 tonnes of bombs on London alone.

[2] In 2018, the British Ministry of Defence reported that 450 World War II bombs were made safe or defused since 2010 by disposal teams.

[3] Every year, an estimated 2,000 tons of World War II munitions are found in Germany, at times requiring the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents from their homes.

[5] Areas with highest concentrations of unexploded ordinances from second world war are in Žužemberk and in Tezno, Maribor because of former airplane motor factory.

According to research by the Geodetic Institute of Slovenia and colleagues using aerial photography done in 2024, there are still at least 30 unexploded bombs from the Second World War in the Maribor area.