National Geographic Channel Pulls TV Series That Archaeologists Criticized

By Nick DeSantis. National Geographic Channel said this week that it would indefinitely pull a planned television series called Nazi War Diggers, after the show drew heated criticism from archaeologists and others, The New York Times reported. National Geographic Channel International had commissioned four episodes of the program, which involved the excavation of sites along the Eastern Front of World War II. It was to have been broadcast around the world, except in the United States. More...