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Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time
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◊ 2012-08-27 10:09 |
can someone explain to me Why are orginal German halftracks soo rare in movies ???? were all destroyed after the war , were none preserved perhaps for movie purposes too ? |
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◊ 2012-08-27 10:56 |
Apparently most WW2 German military vehicles, even intact or restorable ones, were destroyed in the postwar scrap metal drive; the survivors seem to be mostly VW Kübelwagen and Schwimmwagen, and Opel Blitz trucks. From http://www.livesteammodels.co.uk/dhmg/belt005.html: Due to the success of post war scrap drives, German MV’s are extremely rare and those examples which do make it to the open market command high prices. -- Last edit: 2012-08-27 10:58:43 |
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◊ 2012-08-27 14:13 |
A very naive idea  Back in the late 40ies, absolutely noone in Germany ever had this idea  Think about the fact, that 1946/47 were the worst and coldest starving winters in Germany - to get food and heating material, even a place to stay overnight, was the only things, people have looked for back then.As chris40 writes, every little piece of scrap metal was picked up for recycling. Plus the fact, that shortly after the war no Germans were allowed to buy or even use motorized vehicles (except small motorbikes and threewheelers, but those only for business-owners), especially not real military ones. Regular cars, trucks and motorbikes, also Kübelwagen and some NSU Kettenkräder were commandeered by the Allied Troops. In the Western Zones the Allied had large repair-garages, where these vehicles were "civilized" and distributed to private business people, doctors, rangers, etc. After the Allied picked out the stuff, they could use by their own. In the Soviet Zone all vehicles were transported to the SU and nothing was left for the civilians. |
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◊ 2012-08-27 17:00 |
I was refering more of the alies Ingo I guess US/ British officers never cross their mind to preserve some more, Holywood would have shorly apreciated and we the viewers  and in US there are many (very) rare surviving vehicles like the Jagdpanzer 4 paraded on "tank" festivals and conventions nowadays seems every such German vehicles is a very prised item, recently they found a Panther sunked in a polish swamp and made all the effort to salvage it -- Last edit: 2012-08-27 17:39:16 |
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◊ 2012-08-27 21:22 |
Oh, the Allied soldiers were not dumb. They picked the raisins out of the German ashes. Very actual: Link to "www.spiegel.de" (but probably the last time, such happens). |
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◊ 2012-08-27 21:24 |
Not only "seems", it's the reality: /vehicle_373276-KdF-Innenlenker-Typ-38-1938.html |
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