In Kiel, northern Germany, police and army have seized from an 78 year old pensioner's house the following items: A Panther Ausf. D, 88-mm Flakgeschütz 18 AKA Flak-18 , a torpedo and some rifles and machineguns. The mayor, Alexander Orth is not surprised by the find: "He was chugging around in that thing during the snow catastrophe in 1978".