The Nazis deliberately sank the warships in 1944.
Falling water levels in the Danube River during a recent heat wave across Europe have revealed more wrecks from a Nazi German flotilla of warships that were deliberately sunk there in the last months of World War II.
The water levels of the Danube and many other major rivers in Europe have fallen during months of high temperatures and lower-than-usual rainfall; in Serbia, authorities have started using dredges to keep a navigable channel in the Danube open to river traffic. But the wrecks have reduced the width of the channel at Prahovo to just 330 feet , instead of the usual 600 feet .
Zieb led a convoy of warships, soldiers and civilians from the Black Sea regions up the Danube as they retreated from the Soviet military advancing through Romania after August 1944, according to the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel . The result of the mass scuttling near Prahovo has been to create a dangerous obstruction to boats on the Danube that is most exposed when the level of the river falls every summer. Some of the wrecks were cleared away after the end of the war, but most of them are still there. This year, Serbia's government proposed a $30 million operation to remove them, Reuters reported.
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