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Herald Sun (Australia)
Nazi
warships resurface in Serbia
From correspondents in Serbia-Montenegro
07aug03
THE wreckage of sunken
Nazi warships has resurfaced along
a stretch of the Danube River in eastern Serbia after the
waterway receded to an unprecedented low amid a heat wave
and drought.
The rusty 60-year-old
remnants of several warships, believed
parts of Germany's Black Sea Fleet, have begun protruding
in recent days above the surface of the normally wide and
deep river near the eastern Serbian town of Prahovo,
180km east of the capital, Belgrade.
In the stretch where
the ships have surfaced, the river has
fallen to barely 3 metres from its normal level of 15 metres,
as Europe experiences one of its worst heat waves in decades.
"The Danube is
at its lowest level since records began here
in 1888," Srdja Popovic, an environment official in the
Serbian government, said today.
The lower water level
has also hampered navigation.
The vessels are believed
to have been deliberately blown up
by retreating German troops who wanted to hamper the movement
of Soviet forces in the final stages of World War II.
