An 84 year old German man was convicted after keeping a WW2 tank in his basement. Six years after authorities found a World War II-era arsenal, including a 1943 40-ton tank called the “Panther of Heikendorf” and an 88 mm anti-aircraft cannon, in the cellar of resident in the northern town of Heikendorf, the individual received a suspended prison sentence of 14 months.
The man was also fined for illegal weapons possession and has been fined €250,000 ($293,972).
There was also a horde of Nazi memorabilia, including a bust of Hitler, mannequins in Nazi uniforms, swastika pendants, SS rune-shaped lamps, and a statue of a naked warrior holding a sword in his extended hand that once stood outside Hitler’s Chancellery in Berlin, by the dictator’s favorite sculptor.
