84-year-old German man convicted after keeping WW2 tank in basement

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  • Опубликовано: 3 авг 2021
  • The 84-year-old, named only as Klaus-Dieter F. due to local privacy laws, kept the Panzer and the 88mm flak gun in a bunker under his home in Heikendorf, close to the northern city of Kiel. Klaus-Dieter admitted breaching the War Weapons Control Act and was handed a 14-month suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay 250,000 euros (£213,000). As well as the tank and cannon, he was also in possession of a torpedo, a mortar, 70 assault rifles and over 2,000 rounds of ammunition.
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Комментарии • 281

  • @joe18425
    @joe18425 2 года назад +602

    He paid for the tank.
    He had a certificate from the government to prove the gun can't fire live rounds.
    What's the problem?

    • @Mae-nr7wr
      @Mae-nr7wr 2 года назад

      eu backwards leaders, thats the problem

    • @tomhelcon6331
      @tomhelcon6331 Год назад +15

      i dont know man 😕

    • @F-4E-58-MC
      @F-4E-58-MC Год назад +63

      Germany

    • @arsethr.g3787
      @arsethr.g3787 Год назад +39

      He hadn't enough certificates, german moment

    • @f804.de.ruyter
      @f804.de.ruyter 11 месяцев назад +13

      Museums giving the government more money than this man

  • @vlajster
    @vlajster 3 года назад +617

    i don't see anything wrong there! he even repainted it and there are no visible swastikas or nazi insignia at all. that tank is part of history and i hope it will stay in europe and be fully restored

    • @hanz_got_panzer3793
      @hanz_got_panzer3793 3 года назад +24

      Its not about the Nazis I believe that you have to have some sort of permits to be about to house a tank. Or its just that its illegal weapons.

    • @luisurdiales3091
      @luisurdiales3091 2 года назад +38

      It's nout about Nazis. The dude had a bunch of live ammunition and an 88mm AA gun as well.
      I think it's dumb that it has to go to these lengths when it's obvious the guy wasn't any kind of psycho but oh well.

    • @hanz_got_panzer3793
      @hanz_got_panzer3793 2 года назад +4

      @@luisurdiales3091 I do agree. I don't think it was ok to have live ammunition. But on the other hand I do hope that the tank is not scraped.

    • @NamesAreRandom
      @NamesAreRandom 2 года назад +20

      As I understand he bought it and restored it from the British who built it from left over parts for testing after WW2 - so the German goverment really don't have any claim on it. It's weapons were disabled. Everyone knew he had it - locals remember him using it in a snowstorm in the 1970's. It just made great news dragging it out (managing to damage it in the process).

    • @multifuel9689
      @multifuel9689 2 года назад +2

      really ? 84 old years man ? im quit sure, he was in Wermaht

  • @julestielens6988
    @julestielens6988 2 года назад +306

    Poor old man. He’s just a collector. Would they think he would go to war?

  • @aymanoov1
    @aymanoov1 2 года назад +243

    Give this old man his tank back 😢😡

    • @Drigvinom
      @Drigvinom 6 месяцев назад +1

      We can't do anything, thats the government said.

  • @barrettson1028
    @barrettson1028 Год назад +119

    L Germany, the man hasn’t done anything. He deserves his tank.

    • @mejothomas2471
      @mejothomas2471 10 месяцев назад

      Wax, ff zx o😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @hohenstaufen.1010
    @hohenstaufen.1010 10 месяцев назад +56

    This man is a hero and saved one of the greatest ww2 tanks in history.

  • @robertpapancsev8891
    @robertpapancsev8891 3 года назад +289

    Hope it will go to a museum, the man should be awarded to keep it in a mint condition.

    • @wardwyseur
      @wardwyseur 3 года назад +12

      nope, they fined him 250000€. bastards

    • @marcusmunk3355
      @marcusmunk3355 3 года назад +1

      @@wardwyseur And also told to donate it to a musuem

    • @wardwyseur
      @wardwyseur 3 года назад

      @@marcusmunk3355 sell or donate

    • @michaeldebondt1236
      @michaeldebondt1236 2 года назад +14

      I wish for him he get it back it is his tank they outright just stole it from him its a prestine condition and original phanter tank and probably worth up to 25000000€

    • @VeIjaNevoolja
      @VeIjaNevoolja 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@michaeldebondt1236when transporting tank for damaged enough that it cant run anymore gears are broken its scrap now

  • @raymond5705
    @raymond5705 2 года назад +72

    LET HIM KEEP HIS TANK

  • @batuksri
    @batuksri 2 года назад +77

    Shame the way that tank was dragged away as if the owner stopped paying instalments.

    • @johndc2998
      @johndc2998 Месяц назад +1

      On the wheels to nonetheless get it a pair of tracks first or reman the wheels 😢

  • @jerseyjoe106
    @jerseyjoe106 3 года назад +160

    The guy could have opened his own museum!

  • @bigmuddycrossfit260
    @bigmuddycrossfit260 3 года назад +101

    This makes me sad...poor man. An innocent man, taking excellent care of rich history being sentenced and fined at 84...shame, shame, shame. Whoever turned him in, there's a special place for you...

    • @williamhalsted4
      @williamhalsted4 7 месяцев назад +5

      He wasn't turned in, I don't think. The police raided his house since it was rumored to have stolen Nazi artwork. They didn't find any art, but they did find the tank.

    • @WorldwarIIProductions
      @WorldwarIIProductions 4 месяца назад

      Give his tank back😡😡😡😡😡😡

  • @MrKarlo007
    @MrKarlo007 3 года назад +88

    The coolest granddad in town 😊😂

  • @Sapphire_North
    @Sapphire_North 4 месяца назад +9

    It disgusts me the disrespect that they took it from him, despite him owning it legally for all these years.

  • @neogoterra
    @neogoterra 3 года назад +39

    So man owned a private museum collection and the government punished him for that?

  • @jeremyjackson8196
    @jeremyjackson8196 Год назад +21

    Convicted an 84 year old man? How embarrassing

  • @virgilio6349
    @virgilio6349 2 года назад +56

    1:08 I can't help but cringe at this. Idk if it's harming the wheel, but it just doesn't look OK for them to be dragging the tank without tracks over concrete. The thing works, just puts the tracks on and drive it out! Stop!

    • @scottsmith1386
      @scottsmith1386 2 года назад +14

      I cringed at that too!! They could have put a couple of layers of wood planks down for it to turn on or SOMETHING other than dragging the rubber on the road wheels sideways in the turn on concrete 😟

    • @user-ch6xi7rh8k
      @user-ch6xi7rh8k 2 года назад

      @@scottsmith1386 Unfortunately they don't care, just trying to make their liberal enlightened point that tanks and weapons are all bad.

    • @hunterbear2421
      @hunterbear2421 2 года назад +3

      @@scottsmith1386 they had tracks they just didn't put it on

    • @Eagerston
      @Eagerston Год назад +13

      @@hunterbear2421 the steel tracks were disassembled from the tank to preserve a renewable road, at the same time to damage a legally preserved unrenewable rare legally owned private property. That's just, saddening.

    • @hunterbear2421
      @hunterbear2421 Год назад +2

      @@Eagerston thankfully it's not too damaging, i just hope they didn't scrap it.

  • @stickykitty
    @stickykitty 3 года назад +48

    It was just in his basement
    Why sentence him??
    🙄

    • @curiousgeorge5992
      @curiousgeorge5992 3 года назад +8

      Money and control and manipulation by those purportedly there to represent you modern Pharisees

  • @megamanx5760
    @megamanx5760 2 года назад +47

    Whats wrong with having a tank in his basement

    • @cr1pt1c_comet46
      @cr1pt1c_comet46 2 года назад +2

      “What’s wrong with owning a war crime”

    • @Hustl3r1
      @Hustl3r1 2 года назад +24

      @@cr1pt1c_comet46 bad b8

    • @scottsmith1386
      @scottsmith1386 2 года назад +2

      Nothing here in the U.S. but possessing a tank is illegal in Germany 🇩🇪

    • @anin871
      @anin871 2 года назад +23

      @@cr1pt1c_comet46 “What’s wrong with owning a war crime” What does that means?

    • @varunraju.g1022
      @varunraju.g1022 2 года назад +13

      @@cr1pt1c_comet46 what war crime?

  • @MrSundaysCoffee
    @MrSundaysCoffee 8 месяцев назад +12

    As a German, I can comfirm we hide our tanks in our basements.

  • @cobymcintosh6270
    @cobymcintosh6270 2 года назад +16

    let him keep it is his panzer.

  • @danielb.2873
    @danielb.2873 3 года назад +47

    You'll never know when you're going to need one.

    • @FlatBread1
      @FlatBread1 Год назад

      Not like he could exactly drive it to the local coffee shop.

  • @generalbroadhead1760
    @generalbroadhead1760 2 года назад +15

    Man probably enjoyed his beers in that thing every day, poor guy, wish they let him keep it

  • @Fooiethegreat
    @Fooiethegreat 2 года назад +10

    What's wrong with keeping a tank underneath your garage? Didn't even have treads on it where's hegonna go with it

  • @oSamiSrzo
    @oSamiSrzo 11 месяцев назад +11

    It kills me watching them drag it out on the rims

  • @yoyohighness
    @yoyohighness 3 года назад +14

    Grandpa also own an original 88mm cannon

  • @grandwaha
    @grandwaha 3 года назад +10

    Who got rich from possession of the tank. Those are worth millions of dollars

  • @keyser_soze_tus2205
    @keyser_soze_tus2205 5 месяцев назад +2

    I’m sure he had it to keep his Mother In Law away, leave the man alone😂

  • @lostallmymoney2082
    @lostallmymoney2082 2 года назад +8

    Wow I think he should have been given an award.

  • @JamesWilliamStevenParker
    @JamesWilliamStevenParker День назад +1

    Old man: * commits no crime
    The law: * "That's illegal! "

  • @benditomina5521
    @benditomina5521 2 года назад +7

    They should pay him..
    That's was well preserve artifact..
    What a shame

  • @guilhermecunha2969
    @guilhermecunha2969 2 года назад +4

    So who is going to arrest him ?
    I won’t the guy has a fking tank

  • @user-dx9zf2tx5o
    @user-dx9zf2tx5o 7 месяцев назад +3

    Now i understand why my ancesters left a long time ago.

  • @brrrlak
    @brrrlak Год назад +4

    The Panther was stored in the BASEMENT and had NO tracks. WTF, Deutschland

  • @w.wheisenberg3448
    @w.wheisenberg3448 2 года назад +24

    Meanwhile in the US
    A random person: *buy f16*
    US gov: Congrats! you got an extra balistic missile as a bonus

    • @rzr2ffe325
      @rzr2ffe325 Год назад

      Ballistic missile? I don’t get it

  • @krissjohnson4501
    @krissjohnson4501 2 года назад +8

    Germany disarming the poor citizen and no one is like wait this seems familiar.

    • @philwxwlr481
      @philwxwlr481 7 месяцев назад

      Now the way for a tyrannical government is paved.

  • @Trickycarrot102
    @Trickycarrot102 Год назад +6

    who ratted my boy out

  • @RaulVasiu-om9ur
    @RaulVasiu-om9ur 3 месяца назад +2

    Nah let that poor man the tank in the basement. he treated the tank Better than in a Museum

  • @swordimpulse07
    @swordimpulse07 8 месяцев назад +3

    He was only a kid when WWII happened so there's no way he was a veteran

  • @chrishill6362
    @chrishill6362 Год назад +3

    I see no issue with this man having his tank.
    More persecution of the innocent

  • @KINGMDM-sg7oc
    @KINGMDM-sg7oc 2 года назад +7

    So he got everything back correct?

  • @TF2Scout..
    @TF2Scout.. Год назад +4

    In America everyone can own a armed tank but some old man owning a tank in his basement in germany is suddenly bad.

  • @neruil77
    @neruil77 11 месяцев назад +3

    They stole it from him

  • @Demixz.
    @Demixz. 11 месяцев назад +10

    Bro was trying to commence Steiners counter attack 😭 💀

    • @tuka1979B
      @tuka1979B 6 месяцев назад +1

      omfg 😭

  • @Cryght_Vaskallion
    @Cryght_Vaskallion 2 года назад +5

    2 BIG Questions.. 1: How did he get it in his basement? was the house built around it? Also 2: How did they get it out of the basement? did they blow up his house?

    • @SexkeksProducts
      @SexkeksProducts 9 месяцев назад

      Everyone in town knew, he had this stuff. It bothered no one, not even the local authorities, who knew it since 1984...

  • @mickosullivan3827
    @mickosullivan3827 3 года назад +14

    Das ist noice Panzer

  • @wishart1253
    @wishart1253 3 года назад +19

    Wow, that guy is cool

  • @bradleymayberry9060
    @bradleymayberry9060 2 года назад +2

    What did they think: "Hey, he's going to hold up a 7-11 using this thing?"

    • @rzr2ffe325
      @rzr2ffe325 Год назад

      Germany doesn’t have 7-11s

  • @zacsparksbmx33
    @zacsparksbmx33 11 месяцев назад +2

    Who snitched on my man Hans??

  • @Rhonda1969
    @Rhonda1969 3 месяца назад +1

    It was his tank. Statuette of limitations or government agreement. What a gorgeous machine.

  • @julestielens6988
    @julestielens6988 2 года назад +3

    Poor old collector; would anybody think he would go to war?

  • @Dv4n506
    @Dv4n506 10 месяцев назад +2

    Bro was ready for round 3

  • @g11operator
    @g11operator 11 месяцев назад +4

    Cmon dude, give him back his tank

    • @NoPride999
      @NoPride999 8 месяцев назад

      Fr, Let him Keep His Tank

  • @cynthiabauer5763
    @cynthiabauer5763 4 месяца назад +2

    victimless crime... he didn't hurt nor plan to hurt anyone. He collected a very cool historical object. But I guess "you'll own nothing and be happy" in this day and age...

  • @bobcat8439
    @bobcat8439 3 года назад +8

    Thiefs

  • @ujwalsmanhas1093
    @ujwalsmanhas1093 10 месяцев назад +1

    a tank without tracks and an 84 year old man goes to prison. What a shame ?

  • @dutchgamerguy2446
    @dutchgamerguy2446 2 года назад +2

    he is 84 why take away his tank? if he dies, sure, but let him keep it as logn as he lives, why would you take away his lifework?

  • @TF2Scout..
    @TF2Scout.. Год назад +1

    The guy should be paid for the damage they did with the tank.

  • @awfan221
    @awfan221 2 года назад +2

    He pimped it out and removed all the Nazi and ethno-nationalist crap from the exterior. Nicely done

  • @stevee7467
    @stevee7467 11 месяцев назад +1

    That is what you call a barn find.

  • @terrywiltshire7622
    @terrywiltshire7622 10 месяцев назад +2

    Remember seeing this tank in Hardwicks scrap metal yard in Cox Lane Chessington Surrey England in the mid 1960's. They bought it for scrap but none of their cutting equipment could cope.

  • @112granty
    @112granty 3 года назад +7

    is that a panther? is so i'm dead

  • @Saidai_007
    @Saidai_007 6 месяцев назад +1

    "This belongs in a museum"

  • @flipthebird6355
    @flipthebird6355 10 месяцев назад +1

    the war is over, the britsh are allowed, the british are allowed tanks on the road, why aren't german ones? also £213k is over the top extreme.

  • @T.K.P.
    @T.K.P. 3 года назад +16

    How did they found out?

  • @bobcat8439
    @bobcat8439 3 года назад +9

    Highway robbery

  • @JusTChillin12958
    @JusTChillin12958 11 месяцев назад +1

    Its like they're taking your stored toy car for no reason

  • @davidkj6364
    @davidkj6364 3 года назад +19

    That's cool

  • @2good4uuuuu
    @2good4uuuuu 8 месяцев назад +1

    They use a tank to remove the tank

  • @krynkidan
    @krynkidan 2 года назад +6

    I understand tank , everyone wants to have one , but for what purpose as much as 70 assault rifles ? Would't be enough 5 or 6 items ? And besides , how can he pay 250,000 euros ?

  • @Werner4voss
    @Werner4voss Год назад +1

    0:59
    "grandpa we re taking u to a new nursing home"
    "I was comfortable enough in this neighborhood wtf"

  • @AlexReiter1988
    @AlexReiter1988 6 месяцев назад +2

    I don't see a problem, it was his tank

  • @DivineLibraEmperor88
    @DivineLibraEmperor88 6 месяцев назад +1

    I bet after loading the tank,they were tanked

  • @TKDHH8841
    @TKDHH8841 4 месяца назад +1

    I am so glad I was born in the US. I mean look, I love Germany and it’s many cultures (bavarian culture is my favorite) but the idea that a central government can just be like “hey, I see that you own this piece of property, and that’s TOTALLY FINE… if weren’t for the fact that it meets this criteria, therefore you’re not allowed to own it anymore and we’re going take it from you and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it… plus we’re going to prosecute you in criminal court, cause… we can, LOL”…….. is quite off putting, to say the very least.

  • @HanzTheODST
    @HanzTheODST 3 месяца назад

    I’m more concerned on how he managed to get his hands on a f**cking panther tank when like 99% of them are destroyed

  • @chocolat-kun8689
    @chocolat-kun8689 Месяц назад

    Transmission is probably working fine too.

  • @user-ko9cj6vr6o
    @user-ko9cj6vr6o 3 месяца назад

    the biggest flex to share but
    give it back to the old man

  • @thetechlibrarian
    @thetechlibrarian Месяц назад

    Didn't they recently give like 11 people involved in a gang rape a light sentence

  • @rostednuts7037
    @rostednuts7037 6 месяцев назад +1

    Brooo give him his tank back!

  • @rudolf-heinzweber3117
    @rudolf-heinzweber3117 7 месяцев назад +1

    Der Panzer wurde an seinen Besitzer zurückgegeben

  • @erikayers5643
    @erikayers5643 10 месяцев назад +1

    Like did he stash it then build the house.

  • @SomRandomDude
    @SomRandomDude 10 месяцев назад +1

    Let him keep it!

  • @humanplays9684
    @humanplays9684 6 месяцев назад +1

    Mahn, give him his tank back

  • @stingray8898
    @stingray8898 11 месяцев назад +1

    Please tell me they put it in a museum such a pretty tank and he must have been heart broken, did you see how clean the tank was it had no Nazi swastikas on it. He clearly cared for this tank. I just want to know that they did not scrap it.

  • @noir1923
    @noir1923 Год назад +1

    i feel bad for that man,imagine having panther and other ww2 era weaponry in your basement and government fucks you up for that...........

  • @IchBinJude
    @IchBinJude 2 месяца назад +1

    Government these days😐

  • @abdelgaderalfallah
    @abdelgaderalfallah Год назад +1

    Should have thanked him for keeping it

  • @kisprijono93
    @kisprijono93 11 месяцев назад +1

    i like when bundeswehr lifted up the german wehrmacht tank

  • @csaint6780
    @csaint6780 10 месяцев назад +1

    I see nothing wrong with it, wish I had it.

  • @bossaiednac94
    @bossaiednac94 8 месяцев назад +1

    Germany laws are very complicated

  • @paulday-lh5mx
    @paulday-lh5mx 7 месяцев назад +1

    What a time capsule.

  • @Iamtabbu
    @Iamtabbu 5 месяцев назад

    How did he keep a Panther hidden for so long 😭

  • @Tigertank131
    @Tigertank131 4 месяца назад +1

    Not the 88mm flak cannon then it was tiger tank or 8,8 cm flak 36

  • @mkennedy7431
    @mkennedy7431 11 месяцев назад

    where did all the items end up?

  • @jjmmat133
    @jjmmat133 8 месяцев назад +1

    01:39, a lot of neighbor watching, they should hide theirs properly.

  • @dominic6634
    @dominic6634 3 года назад +6

    Very lame taking the guys tank. It will probably rust in a museum now

  • @DivineLibraEmperor88
    @DivineLibraEmperor88 6 месяцев назад

    He should not have been fined,the property.they seized covered the bill

  • @Prosecondamendment2A
    @Prosecondamendment2A 6 месяцев назад +1

    Why are they taking his tank

  • @Panzerkampfwagen_II
    @Panzerkampfwagen_II 7 месяцев назад +1

    Give his tank back >:(

  • @curriculum_vitae_cv
    @curriculum_vitae_cv 8 месяцев назад +1

    WarThunder basement guy 💀💀💀

  • @IdOnTbReAtEaIr
    @IdOnTbReAtEaIr Месяц назад

    Bro has a freaking Panther G.