First look at sunken Nazi ship filled with explosives recovered from sea after 80 years

A sunken World War Two ship which has been lying on a riverbed has been raised after 80 years (Image: @vesicg/ Instagram) A Nazi shipwreck , filled with explosives and weapons, has been raised from its riverbed grave in the River Danube near Prahovo, Serbia , after being submerged for 80 years. It is the first of a couple of hundred wrecks in the river set to be recovered. The German naval ship, part of the flotilla Kampfgruppe Zieb which had gathered in the region in a futile attempt to cross upstream to escape the Soviet Red Army advance.

It was one of around 200 ships deliberately sunk in 1944 on the orders of the Rear Admiral, Paul-Willy Zieb. At that time, the Red Army had already reached the Iron Gates, blocking the Germans’ planned retreat towards the Reich. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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