"Strange reason" being?
German pensioner had a Panzer tank in his cellar
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"Strange reason" being?
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EDIT: How about I go read the article.
How about you go AND read the article? You are not American.
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The horrors they succumbed people?
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That 88 is in fantastic condition too.
That's is awesome! How on earth did he get it in there if it took 9 soldiers to get it out? Crazy old loon!!
says 30 years ago during a snow storm he was seen driving it around town
Well if it's deactivated why does it matter? If he's planning on re-activating it, then that's another matter, but I'm not sure why his political views should change what he's allowed to own.
Amazing! Worth just a few £, probably over a million if its genuine from 1944. Germany has such strange laws when it comes to Nazi history etc it boggles my mind. Its like they try to just block it out and ignore it ever happened.
Haha there was an old rich guy who lived near us, who used to drive around in a Chieftain tank. They put an end to it tho when he trashed the roads.
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Says he's 78 so that would make him 3 years old at the start of WW2, bit young even for Hitler Youth movement
Pretty sure the 'snow catastrophe' mentioned in the article was actually Feb 1979, a band I was in at the time was due to play a tour of British Bases in Germany then and it took us 3 days to get across there. Missed the first gig completely but apparently the German Police had declared northern Germany temporarily closed to all road traffic due to the conditions so no way would we have made it anyway.
Pretty sure the 'snow catastrophe' mentioned in the article was actually Feb 1979, a band I was in at the time was due to play a tour of British Bases in Germany then and it took us 3 days to get across there. Missed the first gig completely but apparently the German Police had declared northern Germany temporarily closed to all road traffic due to the conditions so no way would we have made it anyway.
Says he's 78 so that would make him 3 years old at the start of WW2, bit young even for Hitler Youth movement
Pretty sure the 'snow catastrophe' mentioned in the article was actually Feb 1979, a band I was in at the time was due to play a tour of British Bases in Germany then and it took us 3 days to get across there. Missed the first gig completely but apparently the German Police had declared northern Germany temporarily closed to all road traffic due to the conditions so no way would we have made it anyway.
Should have got a tank
It makes me wonder how he got it, PzV's were in short supply towards the end of the war.
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You do realise the British Empire did stuff just as bad as the Nazis ever did? somehow we got to rewrite history the Nazis not so much.
I really wouldn't make a huge distinction between the acts of ISIS and the Nazis either some things are a bit different but both are guilt of some equally horrendous acts.
Should have got a tank
It makes me wonder how he got it, they were in short supply towards the end of the war.
Most likely disabled by something relatively minor but that they couldn't fix under the situation in the closing chapter of the war and left abandoned where it was.
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He's 78, born in 1936, 9 when the war ended, probably not a Nazi hoarding a secret weapons stash, but quite possibly a potential nutjob.
Did you nazi that coming?
herman the german sitting in his tank,reading the beano having a crafty........
http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/england/dorset/hauntings/bovington-tank-museum.html
Thats bizzare. Same things have been reported with a Lancaster bomber, I cant remember which one and where. I remember watching something where the museum staff set up a camera and could hear very faint sounds of crew members and switches being flipped.
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Assuming the guns arent live, there's no reason he cant keep them, also lol@ the idea of using that in the fourth reich, there are very few nations on earth that don't have the hardware to deal with a panther.
That said, pretty nice, glad to see people are keeping these things around and in good condition, say what you like about their history and purpose but its things like that that keep the history alive and we need to keep the history alive to stop it happening again.
That said, pretty nice, glad to see people are keeping these things around and in good condition, say what you like about their history and purpose but its things like that that keep the history alive and we need to keep the history alive to stop it happening again.