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muriel_volestrangler

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Mon Jul 26, 2021, 04:10 PM Jul 2021

German lawyers wrangle over pensioner's WW2 tank in basement [View all]

Lawyers in Germany are wrangling over how to deal with a pensioner who stored a World War Two tank, anti-aircraft gun and torpedo in his basement.

The items were removed from a house in the northern town of Heikendorf in 2015 with the help of the army.
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In July 2015, it took about 20 soldiers almost nine hours to extract the Panther tank - which was without its tracks - from the residential property and push it onto a low-loader for transportation.

Local authorities were reportedly tipped off about the cellar's contents by colleagues in Berlin, who had earlier searched the home for stolen Nazi art.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57965260

I'm trying to think how he got it down there in the first place. What kind of place has an entrance to a basement so big you can fit a tank through it?

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