It is definitely legal to own a decommissioned, but otherwise functional tank in Germany. I know that the owner of my local scrapyard had a Russian tank that he liked to drive on his property. I suspect the guy in the OP had some other stuff, that was illegal to own…

Please never post slop here again, thank you. ChatGPT is a text generator, not a knowledge engine.

Thanks for the review, it’s really helpful. I want to use it for making musical instruments with my cnc router, so it should be fine.