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Most bridges here do, and often when one needs to be demolished and rebuilt, the military blows it up just for practice.
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But why? More kaboom isn't always better in mines. Especially not in infrastructure you have to repair after the war.
Most of northern and central Germany was seen as a complete loss in any way.
There where hundreds of French tactical nuclear missiles pointed, not at Warsaw Pact countries, but at Germany, to bring the Soviet advance to a halt before it could reach the French border.
German Tornado fighter jets would have been outfitted with nuclear weapons to drop them - you probably guessed it - on German soil.
There would not have been an "after the war" for Germany.
Welcome to the insane logic of nuclear warfare!
It is called MAD, after all.