What made me snigger was the fact that they didn't notice an entire tank missing for ages. AFP: Three arrested in Bulgaria for WWII tank theft Bulgaria: Bulgarian Officer, Two Germans Arrested over Stolen Tank
Some of the few preserved Maybach tanks are in Bulgaria FOCUS Information Agency Bulgaria Bulgarian Nazi-Era Tanks Still Pointed at Turkey | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 19.08.2007
It makes you cringe when you hear of history being cut up for scrap in the 21st Century. When they recovered Kenneth's Hurricane from the beach at Dunkirk, it was stored overnight in the confines of the local police station. That night, after surviving half a century untouched, the wings were hacked off and stolen!! Cheers Owen
Hitler's gift to Bulgarian queen Yoanna lost for Bulgaria - News news 1 Bulagarian Leva is currently worth £0.39 pence, Aus$ 0.84 or US$ 0.80
Nazi tanks for sale in Bulgaria - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Bulgaria has begun to auction off parts of some of its World War II tanks, with bids already topping 14,000 euros ($23,900) for some of the parts, the defence ministry said. Bidding started for parts of the 140 Soviet T-34 tanks that were used to guard the country's border with Turkey during the Cold War era, the ministry said. Real attention however is on dozens of Nazi German Panzer tanks and tank destroyers, which are to come under the hammer later in the year. A bid of 14,000 euros was received for a gun turret of one of the Soviet tanks, with the total results of the auction to be published on Thursday. The 41 German tanks are scheduled to go on sale in May. Most of Bulgaria's tanks have been smelted down, with 2,500 Soviet-era models destroyed between 2006 and 2007. But Bulgaria had intentionally half-buried others on its frontier with Turkey, a member of the rival North Atlantic Treaty Organisation opposed to the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. They were to act as a Cold War line of defence should NATO forces attack. After the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in 1991, these tanks and their adjacent bunkers were eventually forgotten by the army, but not by looters. They moved in to strip and sell the guns, hatches, even whole turrets for scrap - a lucrative business in cash-hungry Bulgaria. One of the German tanks, a rare Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer, was stolen last year, and two Germans and a Bulgarian army officer were arrested for the theft.
Now that's a question - if it doesn't have wings then I'm usually stumped. But from what I gather it is a Sturmgeschuetz III but am probably very wrong.
