Peris
02-22-2008, 01:21 PM
Bulgaria scrambles to rescue forgotten German WWII tanks
VODEN (AFP) – Until recently, more than 100 rusty military tanks lay half-buried and almost forgotten in deserted fields near Bulgaria’s southeastern border, planted as a Cold War deterrent to NATO’s southern flank. But the theft of a rare vintage model sent the army scurrying this month to start a recovery operation to save those still left from looters. “Collectors, and especially the fans of the ‘Fuhrer’ (Adolf Hitler)... are prepared to pay huge sums of money to have one of these,” the deputy director of Sofia’s military history museum, Blagoy Milenov, told AFP. So far, 12 tanks have been pulled from the fields since the operation started on Feburary 6. A Defense Ministry agency is storing them until the army decides their fate.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/world_1KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/world.asp&fdate=22/02/2008
VODEN (AFP) – Until recently, more than 100 rusty military tanks lay half-buried and almost forgotten in deserted fields near Bulgaria’s southeastern border, planted as a Cold War deterrent to NATO’s southern flank. But the theft of a rare vintage model sent the army scurrying this month to start a recovery operation to save those still left from looters. “Collectors, and especially the fans of the ‘Fuhrer’ (Adolf Hitler)... are prepared to pay huge sums of money to have one of these,” the deputy director of Sofia’s military history museum, Blagoy Milenov, told AFP. So far, 12 tanks have been pulled from the fields since the operation started on Feburary 6. A Defense Ministry agency is storing them until the army decides their fate.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/world_1KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/world.asp&fdate=22/02/2008