Danube Drought Exposes World War II German Wrecks and Ordnance
Historic low water levels have exposed dozens of German warships and other World War II relics that may still contain explosives, officials and historians said.
- Dozens of German warships from World War II have emerged from the Danube Riverbed as historic drought levels expose vessels deliberately sunk by Nazi Germany near the conflict's end.
- Historians note that Adolf Hitler's Black Sea fleet was scuttled in September 1944 to obstruct the Soviet advance, leaving as many as 200 German warships submerged in the river.
- Extreme heat and low water levels have pushed the Soviet-era Paks plant in Hungary to the brink; the Hungarian Prime Minister confirmed engineers narrowly averted a complete shutdown.
- Authorities warn that many vessels still contain dangerous explosives, while police in Slovakia recently recovered and detonated an unexploded 700-kilogram British bomb discovered in the receding waters.
- The Danube, passing through 10 countries, has fallen to 10 centimeters in Budapest, well below the previous record low of 33 centimeters set in 2018; recovery is not expected soon.
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Record low water levels in the Danube have exposed the remains of Nazi warships from World War II, The Guardian reports. Unexploded ordnance may still be on board.
The receding waters of the Danube River have revealed a German warship that sank in 1944. The wreckage, which surfaced in Serbia, reflects the declining water levels of rivers in Europe amid rising heat and drought.
The low water of the Danube last led to a historical discovery at Ardagger in the district of Amstetten (Lower Austria). Two warships from the Second World War came to the surface there.The wrecks are supposed to lie near Ardagger on the river bottom since the end of the Second World War. Rudolf Enengel of the history district Ardagger explained to the ORF.Greaters want to see shipsBecause of the persistently low levels, shipping on the Danube i…
The wrecks rise out of the water due to low levels. At the end of the Second World War the German artillery ferry jams were shot at by the USA
The former German artillery ferries were shot at in 1945 and sunk by their own teams.
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