Talk:Stalag X-B

Reasons for reversion

No offence intended, but I reverted for the following reasons:

1. bullet points & lists are discouraged as a style of narrative (see Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Bulleted_lists, so reorganising test into a timeline list should be reconsidered - in this instance it added nothing. If possible the remaining Bullet point list should be converted to straight text
2. I think that some pertinent detail was lost in the amend.

Folks at 137 21:00, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Contradictory content

Here is some material that slightly contradicted the info on the memorial website:

The British forces advancing through this area had been aware of the POW camp but, until two escaped British Secret Service men reached them they were unaware of several thousand political prisoners in a separate compound. These were in desperate conditions and it was decided to liberate the camp immediately. The local German forces refused free access to the camp, so an assault into the area was made by the Guards Armoured Division and the camp was liberated on April 29, 1945. Army medical units were detached to deliver medical attention.

Since the memorial is supported by several official/state institutions, the material there should be well-researched and fact-checked. In Germany, it can end a political career quite abruptly if you make a mistake on an issue related to the Nazi period.Drow69 (talk) 17:50, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

More work

Will try to transform the rest of the timeline into text, adding refs as I go. There should also be a section on post-war use of the camp. Maybe I'll get around to it on the weekend.Drow69 (talk) 21:30, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

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Incomplete information

The 52nd Lowlands Recce Regiment "C" Section, and Royal Engineers were also involved in the liberation of the camp, their actions in WWII are often overlooked as they were often attached to, or under the command of other regiments, in particular XXX Corps My Grandfather, who was in the 52nd(l) Recce kept an article on the liberation of the camp, His friend George Goddard, had a photo of the camp, and Don Aiken (Also 52nd (l) Recce "C" Section) talks about entering the camp in April and mentions that a Major of the Royal Engineers was in charge. All of this indicated that the 52nd(l) Recce had some involvement in the liberation of the camp, or in the immediate events proceeding, along with the Royal Engineers, and their part in this story should also get a mention and not just XXX Corps.86.143.143.20 (talk) 18:38, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

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