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Drought-Lowered Danube Reveals WWII-Era German Military Motorcycle in Hungary

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Drought-Lowered Danube Reveals WWII-Era German Military Motorcycle in Hungary — PHOTO — MOTOMAIS / © Motomais↗ View original

An unusually low Danube water level exposed a German military motorcycle, a DKW NZ350-1 from World War II, from the mud along the riverbank in Budapest, Hungary. Larger ship wreckage was also found at Prahovo in Serbia. The motorcycle is believed to have been abandoned during the German retreat as Soviet forces advanced in 1944, and experts from Hungary's Museum of Military History carried out the recovery and survey.

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Mine Kusagane

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Mine KusaganeMotorcycle History · Classic Bikes Commentary

This one bike had its era frozen in the mud for more than 80 years. In the context of the German retreat of 1944, the DKW NZ350-1 was a tool of logistics, but it's also, at the same time, a living memory of the people who lived through that era. I wonder, looking back through history, whether memories like this keep resurfacing every time the river runs low.