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[-] RandomStickman@fedia.io 108 points 1 week ago

Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest. What is the charge? A tank? A fully restored tank?

[-] Denjin@lemmings.world 46 points 1 week ago

Take your hands of my Pak 40 sir

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 15 points 1 week ago

I see you know your Maybachs well.

[-] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 100 points 1 week ago

The backstory is that it was a rich guy whose house was a Hitler shrine and was in bed with neo nazis

[-] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Believable, but you got any source on that claim?

[-] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was going by memory. The Wikipedia page on him gives a rundown but doesn't mention much about affiliations with neo-nazis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus-Dieter_Flick

The last part of this article does. I guess it would be safer to call them unconfirmed allegations but fuck him

https://www.thetimes.com/article/collector-kept-weapons-and-busts-of-hitler-in-nazi-bunker-vzfc5gzzr

[-] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

During the search of his property, the police found an underground nuclear shelter, which was built during the Cold War and equipped with Nazi insignia.

Usually Non-Nazis do not decorate their underground nuclear shelters with Nazi insignia.

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago

Usually Non-Nazis do not decorate their underground nuclear shelters with Nazi insignia.

Really? I'm going to need to give my interior decorator a call. I was assure this was where the market was headed.

[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Ten years later, local authorities were again tipped off after officials in Berlin searched the home for stolen Nazi art. During their search, they also came upon busts of Hitler, an Arno Breker bronze statue of a nude man that was reportedly once outside Hitler’s Reich Chancellery, mannequins outfitted in Nazi uniforms, swastika pendants, a V-1 rocket replica, and SS rune-shaped lamps."

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/lawyers-argue-over-fines-after-antique-tank-removed-from-pensioners-basement.html

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] Heyting@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

A German owning war memorabilia has a high likelihood of being a nazi.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

I feel like that is some quite important information what was missed out...

[-] Amonverite@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago
[-] tja@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago

Having a basement big enough to store a tank in it is one of my dreams

[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

And then I'll use it for D&D. That is if I had friends who had time.

If you have a tank, you won't have to worry about friends.

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 17 points 1 week ago

Calling it a Panzer is still technically correct (Panzerkampfwagen V) but it feels wrong calling it a Panzer when it's more commonly known as a Panther.

[-] EldritchFeminity 22 points 1 week ago

The War Thunder community has entered the chat and leaked a classified document

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago

Is it illegal to have a tank in your basement?

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They didn't say it was being confiscated; maybe it's just being removed to a museum or something.

/edit: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57965260

https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-senior-wwii-nazi-tank-in-basement-fined-293000-2021-8?op=1

Nvm; violating Germanys War Weapons Control Act and fined $293k. Mostly because he had ammo, artillery, a torpedo, and the weapons were considered functional.

Required to donate/sell them within 2 years.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

torpedo,

That had me laughing out loud.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

It's funny from here, but when your neighbor has multiple hundreds of kilos of 80-year old high-explosive in his house, it becomes somewhat less amusing.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Obviously it's a horrible situation to be in.

But Mel Books put it best. "Tragedy is when I get a papercut on my pinkie. Comedy is when you fall into a well and die."

[-] JordanZ@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

You're making it really fuckin' hard for me to not make a "yo' momma" joke, bro.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

T Y R A N N Y

If you're not a Nazi, but he was, so fuck him.

Man, Germany has to be the fun police.

I'd love some WW2 equipment and munitions.

[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 1 week ago

ncd in shambles rn

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago

They’ll never find my stratofortress.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Reminds me of this guy, minus the Nazi part.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

That link doesn't load after 5 seconds for me and I am not waiting any longer. But its a tank, how does it make the guy a nazi?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Here, try this one: https://youtu.be/x2fzmrmO2fU

Also the "Nazi" part is being claimed by other comments in this thread.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago
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