Evaporating Danube reveals sunken Nazi ships

By at 11:21 am Tuesday, Aug 5

Damned war-historians are getting a free ride on the heavy weather:
Europe's worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to its lowest level in more than a century, revealing German warships sunk to slow advancing Soviet forces in World War II.

As the Danube's depth at this remote spot in eastern Serbia fell to levels not seen since records began in 1888, the wreckage of an old battle ship last week slowly emerged above the surface by the Romanian border.

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