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German 84-year-old hit with massive fine over WWII tank

German 84-year-old hit with massive fine over WWII tank The unnamed man was also handed a suspended prison sentence of 14-months over the tank, as well as a cache of other Nazi-era weapons. Investigators raided the man s home in 2015 acting on a tip about art potentially stolen by the Nazis. READ MORE: Under German privacy laws, the 84-year-old cannot be named. Authorities found a 1943 Panther tank, a flak anti-aircraft cannon and assorted assault rifles and pistols. The tank was missing its tracks, and it took authorities nine hours to get it out of his basement garage. The tank weighs 50,000 kilograms and measures 6.7 metres long

German pensioner is fined £200,000 for keeping a WWII TANK and AA gun among huge arsenal at home

A German pensioner has been fined more than £200,000 for keeping a WWII tank and an anti-aircraft cannon stashed in a colossal arsenal at his house. Retired broker Klaus-Dieter Flick, 84, kept the Panzer and the 88mm flak gun in a bunker under his home in Heikendorf, close to the northern city of Kiel.  Flick told the judge he bought the tank as scrap in Britain in 1977, and had even paid the Bundeswehr £25,000 to repair the engine. But he agreed to plead guilty to breaching the War Weapons Control Act and was handed a 14-month suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay 250,000 euros (£213,000).

Germany: Nazi tank collector on trial for basement cache | Germany | News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW

Germany: Nazi tank collector on trial for basement cache | Germany | News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW
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