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84-yer old German man fined for keeping Nazi tank in his underground garage
Arutz Sheva ^ | 4/8/21 | Dan Verbin

Posted on 08/04/2021 9:23:46 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

An 84-year old German man has been fined 250,000 euros ($297,000 USD) for storing a collecting of World War II-era weapons in his basement, including a 45-ton Nazi tank, according to German media reports.

The court in Kiel, Germany convicted the man under the country’s War Weapons Control Act after a search of the octogenarian’s home resulted in the discovery of a large collection of wartime military weapons stored in his underground garage, including the Panther tank, a torpedo, mortars, anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, automatic pistols and 1,500 rounds of ammunition, the Register reported.

The defendant, whose name was kept confidential due to German privacy law, received a 14-month suspended sentence. He must donate or sell the tank and the anti-aircraft guns to a museum or collector within two years, reported the Associated Press.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Germany; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: banglist; europe; fine; germany; guncontrol; kiel; tank; ww2
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To: Bob434

I also got stuck on the “cash of weapons”. How much cash are we talking about, here? Is it denominated in Deutsche Marks, Euros, or Dollars?

Life keeps getting more confusing.


21 posted on 08/04/2021 9:41:00 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: dfwgator
I remember that scene well, from the 1965 movie The Battle of the Bulge
22 posted on 08/04/2021 9:45:35 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: BBQToadRibs2

You could get a permit for the main gun, too, I think.


23 posted on 08/04/2021 9:45:59 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: Little Ray

He could have given rides to the kiddies on VE Day. Could have had his own personal theme park, and charged admissions. But nooooooo!

Maybe someone could buy the anti-aircraft gun to defend against F-16 attacks?


24 posted on 08/04/2021 9:46:36 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (不要相信中国。中国是个混蛋 "don't trust China. China is azzhoe" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicC53AhZ6Y)
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To: Eleutheria5

IF the old guy can’t keep them, I hope there is a museum that will purchase them.
If he has some MP-44s, I am sure collectors here would love to buy them.


25 posted on 08/04/2021 9:48:15 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: Dan in Wichita

Only decent scene in the movie.


26 posted on 08/04/2021 9:49:39 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Eleutheria5
Does the United States have restrictive laws like that? I hope not, because I keep a Centurion tank in my garage.


27 posted on 08/04/2021 9:51:39 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Years ago in L.A. one of the movie studios were getting rid of a bunch of their props which included a WWI tank with real big hard rubber wheels not tracks.
He got it and equipped it with all the necessary turn signals, lights etc and drove it in to Downtown L.A. on the Harbor freeway. Bet it was a chore getting it signed off as a legal vehicle.
Again it was 45 years ago.
Todays communist Calif would Never allow it.


28 posted on 08/04/2021 9:52:44 AM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: BBQToadRibs2

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2015/10/2_men_killed_in_tank_explosion.html

I know a guy in New Jersey that restores AFV’s. He had a couple of investors that wanted a tank restored with a working main gun. He refused for technical reasons. He also know the guys in the above article that died when the breach exploded on their M-10 Hellcat tank destroyer. And THAT is the reason he doesn’t mess with main guns.


29 posted on 08/04/2021 9:54:18 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: dfwgator
"Does he start each day singing the Panzerlied?"

I heard he was more partial to Springtime for Hitler and Germany....


30 posted on 08/04/2021 9:55:02 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Eleutheria5

Home self defense with extreme prejudice?


31 posted on 08/04/2021 9:56:28 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Leaning Right

The movie-opening scene showed Germany was losing badly. Next thing you know these BOYS(!) started singing and Kessler gets into it with them. He knew they were losing and preferred the kamikaze mission to the fräulein the general sent him. At then of the movie I knew he was sick.

BTW-Henry Fonda got the role of the smart, good guy who was right in the end. He did in most of his flicks. Think 12 angry Men. Plenty of others.


32 posted on 08/04/2021 9:58:27 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Red Badger

https://1-394-11328-1.b.cdn13.com/pictures/982/982584.jpg


33 posted on 08/04/2021 9:59:08 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit..)
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To: carriage_hill

Wrong war..........................


34 posted on 08/04/2021 10:00:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Little Ray

Yeah, there’s a place in Texas called DriveTanks.com where you can drive AND Fire a Sherman, a T-34, or a Scorpion.

You can also fire 105 Howitzers, and both Soviet and German artillery.


35 posted on 08/04/2021 10:03:00 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: Eleutheria5

Don’t go bragging about your tank at the biergarten.


36 posted on 08/04/2021 10:05:02 AM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Eleutheria5

37 posted on 08/04/2021 10:07:01 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: DIRTYSECRET

It was the movie where he needed a bigger tank before he needed a bigger boat.


38 posted on 08/04/2021 10:08:06 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Eleutheria5
Maybe someone could buy the anti-aircraft gun to defend against F-16 attacks?

Good news. They made an Flakpanzer variant of the Panther.


39 posted on 08/04/2021 10:10:08 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Eleutheria5

We had a guy in Houston who parked his tank on the street, in front of his home in River Oaks, a very posh residence neighborhood. Neighbors were annoyed, HOA intervened, but he got to keep it there.


40 posted on 08/04/2021 10:17:30 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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