Several sources suggest Berlin had designs on Kosovo’s immense resource wealth — the Stari Trg mining complex, dubbed by journalist Chris Hedges “the most valuable piece of real estate” in the region, was a ripe source of coal, lead, zinc, cadmium, gold and silver, worth at least US$5 billion at the time. Chillingly , the mine had provided the bulk of the material for Nazi U-Boat batteries following the April 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia.

Kit Klarenberg

Good article. Absolutely pathetic that most Americans have no clue what really went on there.