“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.”
Seems like he was eccentric and it was well known he had tanks since the 80’s.
A bit suss he was so passionate about Nazi memorabilia but he could also just be autistic.
Given he owned these things for nearly 30 years without incident and the local town seemed to like him (he used his tanks to clear snow after a blizzard)
I still haven’t made up my mind on if he is full blown nazi or just wealthy autistic collector.
As much as I despise nazis, and I really do, there is still value in preserving historical artefacts. Should he probably have just donated it to a museum rather than keep it in private collections? Yea, but lots of rich assholes hoard art in their private collections as dick swinging contests. The government seems more at fault for taking 30 years to remove something that seems to have been common knowledge the entire time.
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.
The backstory is that it was a rich guy whose house was a Hitler shrine and was in bed with neo nazis
A German owning war memorabilia has a high likelihood of being a nazi.
Believable, but you got any source on that claim?
“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
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
I read the wiki article.
Seems like he was eccentric and it was well known he had tanks since the 80’s.
A bit suss he was so passionate about Nazi memorabilia but he could also just be autistic.
Given he owned these things for nearly 30 years without incident and the local town seemed to like him (he used his tanks to clear snow after a blizzard)
I still haven’t made up my mind on if he is full blown nazi or just wealthy autistic collector.
As much as I despise nazis, and I really do, there is still value in preserving historical artefacts. Should he probably have just donated it to a museum rather than keep it in private collections? Yea, but lots of rich assholes hoard art in their private collections as dick swinging contests. The government seems more at fault for taking 30 years to remove something that seems to have been common knowledge the entire time.
Usually Non-Nazis do not decorate their underground nuclear shelters with Nazi insignia.
https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-senior-wwii-nazi-tank-in-basement-fined-293000-2021-8?op=1
Doesn’t detail his relations or desires; but the memorabilia checks out.