villers bocage:michael wittmanns most famous feat of arms

Glad they killed the bastard, sick of hearing about him.

 

Another version

http://www.wehrmacht-lexikon.de/waffen-SS/konvolut/wittmann/audioarchiv/index.php

Clearly Wittmann has no problem personally claiming 20+ tanks when he knew it was untrue. Note the way the interviewer makes great play of the 'lone-Tiger-stopping-a-Regiment' claim.
This is the version promoted by the Kurowski types who had no interest in finding out if it was actually true. Up to the 1970s no one outside Germany knew or cared much about Wittmann. He never figured once in Allied accounts of WW2. Then in the early 1970s Tamiya start making Tigers and modellers latch on to the Landser version of Wittmann and they instantly bond with the myth. 4 decades later and the true believers still make fools of themselves praising his actions and offering 'salutes' to the brave man on the anniversary of his death. The Tamiya version of Wittmann is buried deep inside a generation of modellers and even today you find them popping up to try and defend the vastly inflated claims he made in Normandy.
There is no mystery about his death. The facts are beyond dispute. This Tiger attack was taken on both flanks by 2 groups of Shermans and wiped out. Because multiple tanks were firing at the same 6 Tigers then it is impossible to say with any authority which Sherman hit which Tiger. That is the only unknown and it will never be resoved. It is not the case that 'multiple' claims are being made about his death. There never have been 'multiple claims' from any sources other than those with an interest in denying Wittmann fell to a Sherman. Those people want us to believe there are multiple claims so they can reference them in the hope of muddying the waters and preserve their fantasy.
Truth is no Allied tanker knew about Wittmann and thus there was no scramble to claim the credit. They saw targets, they dealt with them, they moved to the next target. It was just another 'normal' day in France on August 8 1944.