what happens if they send germany the bill for damages?
Cologne has a found WW2 bomb every other week or so, e.g. look at this non-exhaustive press release list: https://www.stadt-koeln.de/basisdienste/suche/?keywords=Bomb...
Most can be disarmed, but some have to be exploded in a controlled manner.
Nowadays I get pushed safety notifications to my phone (KATWARN app) wherever I am in Germany that they found a WW2 bomb nearby.
The app then shows the location and evacuation information.
"Controlled" detonation of old bomb in Munich 10 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrFydaWOTpI
(Not entirely serious here, but still.)
Apart from that, many of these explosives are malfunctioning bombs that were supposed to go off when firefighters and rescue personell are at the site. Such devices are pure malice; the defense argument can't justify them.
That's what I was referring to. That's why it's too late now.
Wasn't that complicated, but sometimes people on HN read what they want to read.
That's a bit like Russia sending Ukraine bills for destroyed military equipment.
But there is (or rather was) an greater argument, of not wasting anymore time, with historic fights over and over again and rather move on and look forward.
All the great conflicts are getting solved that way and not with bean counting.