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Piotr Lewandowski of ‘Fundacja Thesaurus’ (Foundation Thesaurus), an NGO based in Poland, explains why he’s fighting for a World War Two German Panther tank, currently housed at a museum in the US, to be returned to Poland
The German tank Pz.Kpfw. V Ausf. A sank in the River Czarna Nida in Poland on January 17 or 18, 1945 during a Soviet offensive from the Baranowsko-Sandomierski bridgehead.
In the 1950s the turret, which could be seen during low water levels, was blown up by sappers of the Polish Army. The tank was forgotten until 1989 when the deputy director of a regional museum in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Henryk Gruszka, organised a search for World War Two wrecks sunk in the River Czarna Nida and the tank’s remains were again ‘found’.
