- In 1944, Hitler’s Black Sea fleet destroyed dozens of warships in the Danube River.
- 10,000 mines were hidden in the exposed rubble, a Serbian minister said.
- Europe’s drought is bringing history back to earth.
A devastating drought across Europe is revealing thousands of years of lost history.
The water level on the Danube River in Serbia has dropped due to extreme heat and lack of rain, re-entering World War 20. The Nazi fleet is the most impressive of the German warships.
WW2 German warships appear in Serbia with depleted water levels
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In 1944, Hitler’s Black Sea fleet was destroyed as the German army retreated from Soviet forces, Reuters reported.
Some Nazi boats dot the Danube River and still boast guns, tourists, command bridges and broken masts.
The Washington Post reports that many more ships are believed to be buried beneath the river’s sandbanks.
A Nazi warship was revealed during the drought in Serbia
Fedja Grulovic / Reuters
Serbian Transport Minister Belimir Trajlović told local media that around 10,000 explosive devices were hidden in the exposed rubble.
Across Europe, much of the lost history of the continental drought is unfolding.
In Spain, the Valdecanas reservoir has dried up and revealed a prehistoric stone circle named “Spanish Stonehenge”, officially known as the Guadalupe dolmen.
The dolmen of Guadalperal, also known as the Stonehenge of Spain, are receding from the Valdecanas Reservoir on the outskirts of El Gordo.
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It was discovered in 1926 but has been submerged since 1963. It has been fully exposed only four times, but officials say the water level has dropped to 28%, Reuters reported.
In medieval Germany, “hungry stones” appeared in dry rivers. The rocks show how low water levels have been in previous severe droughts.
“Droughts have led to poor yields, food shortages, inflation and hunger for the poor,” the researchers said.
In the year A view of the ‘Hunger Stone’, begun in 1616.
Reuters
If you see me, cry (“If You See Me, Don’t Cry”), the inscription was found on a rock in the Elbe River near the northern Czech town of Dičin, close to the German border, The Guardian reported. “When this happens, life will be more colorful again,” said another in Germany.
On Italy’s Po River, a 1,000-pound World War II bomb was dropped on the site, displacing 3,000 residents.
A 100,000-year-old deer skull and the remains of a hyena, lion and rhinoceros have been found in dry Lake Como in northern Italy, The Guardian reports.
