Police say it was impossible to say exactly how long it would take to make the bomb safe.
Schools will be opened for people who can`t stay with relatives or friends. Police said that people can bring their pets to shelters and that public transportation will be free Christmas morning.
Finding bombs from the war is not unusual in Germany. This evacuation, however, is even bigger than the 45,000 people temporarily evacuated to remove a bomb in Koblenz in 2011.
Large parts of Augsburg were destroyed on Feb. 25-26, 1944, when the city was attacked by hundreds of British and U.S. bombers.
/NY Times/
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