Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 16 Traces of History

"The flag of Ernst Thälmann's Pioneer Organization, this is a rare good thing. Because after the reunification of Germany and Germany, almost all of these things were destroyed by the current federal government."

As expected of a professional who has worked in this industry all his life, Old Pierce quickly recognized what this flag was after carefully inspecting it.

"How much is this thing worth?" Pierce, who was rummaging through boxes and cabinets on the other side of the corridor just now, also came up. "At least it should be worth more than those billboards or red and blue scarves."

"I know money is very important, but you can't just think about money in this business." Listening to Pierce's question, the old Pierce stared at his son seriously and said.

“You have to learn to take the cultural heritage out of these objects and learn to respect them so they will give you back.”

After simply training their son a few words, several people began to search around.Sure enough, they found a dozen blue or red flags from the surrounding paper bags and boxes.

"This should be the flag belonging to the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organization or the German Free Youth League, and several of them belong to very rare regional flags."

Old Pierce unfolded the banner one by one, and introduced at the same time. "As far as I know, apart from a Cold War-themed museum in Berlin, no similar flags have appeared anywhere else."

"But this flag is a bit strange." Old Pierce said as he unfolded the largest of these flags, which looked like a blue flag the size of a single bed sheet.

"I've never seen a flag like this before, Lawrence, can you help me see what is written on this flag?"

"This German means the Vanguard Armored Brigade." Having said this, Liang En frowned. "That's not right. There were uniform regulations on the flags of the army back then, but this flag does not comply with the regulations at all."

"Look, this is the importance of being prepared. Because a lot of times, our takeaways come from those things that are different."

At this time, Old Pierce educated his son first, then pointed to the flag and said. "This flag is correct. There was indeed such an armored brigade in East Germany back then, but it was not a regular army."

"How is it possible?" Pierce exclaimed in a low voice at this time, "This is an armored brigade, there is no armored brigade in the world that is not a regular army—"

"Wait, I seem to have thought of something." Liang En suddenly recalled some information he had collected from the Internet before coming here.

"When the East German Ernst Thälmann Pioneer organized children's military training, there seemed to be a small tank, and it looked very similar to a real tank—"

"That's right, in 1978. In order to cater to the policy of military education for young children at that time, East Germany prepared a batch of pocket tanks specially made for children by the famous satellite car manufacturer at that time."

"The tank has a maximum speed of 15 km/h, is made of metal and plastic, and uses the engine of a satellite car. At the same time, this vanguard armored brigade also began to operate under the supervision of the former East German Ministry of State Security."

"However, these tanks have only been in operation for about 20 years. When the Cold War ended, this kind of military training for children was cancelled. At the same time, all the items left by this pioneer tank brigade were destroyed."

As soon as Old Pierce finished speaking, Liang En immediately continued. "In other words, this flag representing the Vanguard Tank Brigade should be destroyed."

"Theory is theory, but reality is reality." Old Pierce said after carefully folding the flag.

"During the German reunification period in the early 90s, everyone had a lot of work to do. So in that case, it is completely understandable that some non-essential departments graduate with mistakes."

"But now these things belong to us." Pierce said excitedly while helping to put away the flags. "They never imagined that these things that they destroyed as garbage 20 years ago would become treasures now."

After sorting and putting away all these precious items, they continued to clean up the iron shelves placed in front of the warehouse.

Just as they guessed before, the people who stored these things back then had plans before placing them.Therefore, on the iron shelves are some textiles, or wooden publicity boards and other things with obvious imprints of the times.

"What's the matter at the door?" Just after sorting out the things in the last oiled paper bag on the iron shelf, loud scolding and the sound of smashing various things began to be heard not far away.

At this time, Pierce had just returned after throwing out the garbage, so Liang En asked what happened outside.

"The few people who paid a lot of money to take pictures of the warehouse containing the weapon boxes lost money." Pierce showed a schadenfreude smile.

"They had just finished cleaning up and were about to take a good look at their loot, and when they opened the weapon boxes, they found all the boxes were empty."

"This is normal. After all, compared to the things we are looking for now, weapons must have been the most concerned objects of both sides." Old Pierce pushed his glasses and said, "So it is not surprising that the firearms inside were taken away. .”

Although in theory it is a very normal situation that all the gun boxes are empty, in fact, for the person who paid more than 6 euros to buy the warehouse, this is definitely bad news among bad news.

It's no wonder that during Liang En's ten-minute break, the sound of shouting, rain and throwing things from outside didn't stop.

However, this had nothing to do with Liang En and the others. After resting for nearly 20 minutes and eating something, they began to sort out the things behind the shelf that were covered by canvas.

"I think the person who hid these things was probably the officer in charge of Ernst Thälmann's vanguard organization, and he was also in charge of the Vanguard Armored Brigade."

After opening a box and finding that it was full of tank uniforms that were one size smaller, Liang En said loudly to Murphy and his son.

"Indeed, it is really difficult for ordinary people to gather these things together in that chaotic era." Old Pierce nodded approvingly, and then forcefully pried open a dusty box.

"Engine, there is actually an engine for a satellite car here."

Old Pierce's shout attracted two young people. Liang En and Pierce quickly came to the box, and then looked at the engine fixed in the center of the box and sealed with butter.

"It's so small—" Liang En has had his own car in two lifetimes, and there is more than one, so the engine of the car has been seen a lot.

But the engine that appeared in front of him was too small, it didn't look as big as the engines of some high-horsepower motorcycles.

"It's a two-cylinder, two-stroke thing with only 26 horsepower. From a certain point of view, it has no advantages other than being cheap." Old Pierce shrugged.

"There was a joke around here back then. Want a satellite car to run more than 100 kilometers per hour? Push it off a cliff."

(End of this chapter)