So somebody stole Wittmann’s headstone in France
How much you want to bet that 50 of these have been sold on the underground militaria market this week…
Hauptsturmführer Michael Wittmann, killed at age 30 between the towns of Cintheaux and St. Aignan de Cramesnil in France, was better known as “The Black Baron” for his skill with a Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf. E. He picked up the Knights Cross for his confirmed 138 tank kills in WWII but was himself smoked by a British-manned Sherman Firefly of the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry, (or maybe by a Canadian Firefly of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers) just after D-Day.
Now it seems someone picked up his gravestone as a keepsake