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Doesn't The Tin Drum deserve to be mentioned somewhere?
" Post" is a very ambiguous term (among other things, it means " military base)." Maybe better retitle the article: "Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig"? KonradWallenrod 16:26, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Well, a military base it was, wasn't it? Certain buildings (and user accounts ...) are not what they pretend to be. -- Matthead Discuß 14:59, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
I love how someone linked "Going postal" to this article. Please let's keep it this way, because these brave people really went postal.
What are hand machine guns? I assume that's meant to mean submachine gun? Geoff B 19:47, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_Corps_Feldherrnhalle#Early_campaigns says SA. -- HanzoHattori 10:13, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
I guess both. Also, infobox illustration: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafika:Atak_na_Polsk%C4%85_Poczt%C4%99_w_Gda%C5%84sku_1.09.1939.jpg -- HanzoHattori 10:55, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
"Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig" has only one source at Google Books: a Waffen-SS member. Okay, he has won a Nobel price, but not for history. The title is POV from those within the building. Do all Polish Post offices have caches with machine guns and hand grenades? "battle for the Polish Post Office in Danzig" "battle for the Polish Post Office" "attack on the Polish Post Office" ? The latter [1] is used by Steve Zaloga, W. Victor Madej: The Polish Campaign, 1939. "Fight for"? "Siege of"? -- Matthead Discuß 14:59, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Article claims 55 Postmen and civilians + 1 railwayman (56), german wiki claims 57, though only mentioning 40 danzig postmen + 10 from other posts plus a railwayman + the janitor + wife and adopted child (which comes only to 40+10+1+1+1+1= 54). The casualties section claims 6 killed , 14 wounded, 38 executed in captivity (shouldn't that be 'captured, later executed'?) which comes up to 58 casualties for 56 people in the post (German article claims 6 killed, 2 more killed trying to surrender, 6 fleed, 44 captured of which 16 were wounded and 6 died of these wounds, leaving us with 8 dead, 16 wounded&captured, 6 fled, 28 (44-16 wounded) captured which at least matches the numbers). Has anyone citations for correct numbers? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.135.151.73 ( talk) 19:18, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
This article is currently at start/C class, but could be improved to B-class if it had more (inline) citations. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 23:56, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Is there any information on the book alleging that the court martial was not legally competent? The Danzig police forces may have had a "commanding role" in the attack, but if the defenders breached a German criminal code a Wehrmacht court martial would have jurisdiction. There was no equivalent "police court". Royalcourtier ( talk) 20:39, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
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Doesn't The Tin Drum deserve to be mentioned somewhere?
" Post" is a very ambiguous term (among other things, it means " military base)." Maybe better retitle the article: "Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig"? KonradWallenrod 16:26, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Well, a military base it was, wasn't it? Certain buildings (and user accounts ...) are not what they pretend to be. -- Matthead Discuß 14:59, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
I love how someone linked "Going postal" to this article. Please let's keep it this way, because these brave people really went postal.
What are hand machine guns? I assume that's meant to mean submachine gun? Geoff B 19:47, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_Corps_Feldherrnhalle#Early_campaigns says SA. -- HanzoHattori 10:13, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
I guess both. Also, infobox illustration: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafika:Atak_na_Polsk%C4%85_Poczt%C4%99_w_Gda%C5%84sku_1.09.1939.jpg -- HanzoHattori 10:55, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
"Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig" has only one source at Google Books: a Waffen-SS member. Okay, he has won a Nobel price, but not for history. The title is POV from those within the building. Do all Polish Post offices have caches with machine guns and hand grenades? "battle for the Polish Post Office in Danzig" "battle for the Polish Post Office" "attack on the Polish Post Office" ? The latter [1] is used by Steve Zaloga, W. Victor Madej: The Polish Campaign, 1939. "Fight for"? "Siege of"? -- Matthead Discuß 14:59, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Article claims 55 Postmen and civilians + 1 railwayman (56), german wiki claims 57, though only mentioning 40 danzig postmen + 10 from other posts plus a railwayman + the janitor + wife and adopted child (which comes only to 40+10+1+1+1+1= 54). The casualties section claims 6 killed , 14 wounded, 38 executed in captivity (shouldn't that be 'captured, later executed'?) which comes up to 58 casualties for 56 people in the post (German article claims 6 killed, 2 more killed trying to surrender, 6 fleed, 44 captured of which 16 were wounded and 6 died of these wounds, leaving us with 8 dead, 16 wounded&captured, 6 fled, 28 (44-16 wounded) captured which at least matches the numbers). Has anyone citations for correct numbers? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.135.151.73 ( talk) 19:18, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
This article is currently at start/C class, but could be improved to B-class if it had more (inline) citations. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 23:56, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Is there any information on the book alleging that the court martial was not legally competent? The Danzig police forces may have had a "commanding role" in the attack, but if the defenders breached a German criminal code a Wehrmacht court martial would have jurisdiction. There was no equivalent "police court". Royalcourtier ( talk) 20:39, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
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