Bulgaria's WWII tanks to go under hammer

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2008

SOFIA (AFP) — Bulgaria is to auction off World War II Panzer tanks thought to be worth millions of dollars, the country's defence ministry said Thursday.

"People from all over the world, from America to Jordan, have declared an interest in these rare German tanks," the deputy director of Sofia's military history museum, Blagoy Milenov, told a press conference.

Six Panzer IV tanks will go under the hammer on March 19 "to gauge their value," with another 41 going on the market in May, according to Emil Petrov, a defence ministry heritage official.

A Russian collector has already offered five million leva (2.5 million euros, 3.6 million dollars) to buy one such model held by the museum, Milenov has said.

Eight of the best-preserved have been recovered...