WW2 weapons collection seized near Kiel, Germany

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(german composite nouns ftw!)

Yes indeed.

While collecting militaria of this size is a bit excentric, it's again a fine example of the tendency of german authorities to act first, think later imo.

I think that is very situational and we don't know how many months they thought about the paperwork that said he had these things in his basement. They certainly seem to think a lot if you need something from them.

Tax money

Germany always has too much of that and too little of it at the same time. We have too little when it comes to helping poor fugitives and too much of it if we need to bail out a bank or the investment of a bank in a bankrupt country. During the Cold War our army was huge and had modern equipment and nowadays our army is little and can't even afford the spare parts to keep half the equipment working.
I don't think it is because of such actions though, maybe they wanted a legal excuse to have a closer look at his collection.