Sergeant Werner Stephan, 40, was one cop whom West Berliners really liked. For twelve years, as the city's top bomb expert, he had Berlin's toughest and most dangerous jobdefusing the thousands of unexploded bombs and shells still hidden in the debris of the shattered city. With his close police pal Gerhard Raebiger, he removed fuses from some 8,000 dud bombs, some 10,000 grenades. Through the years of reconstruction he was on call day and night, sometimes working 48 hours at a stretch on some particularly ticklish job. Once, when rubble removers uncovered a nest of three blockbusters smack in the middle...
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