Talk:Wehrmacht

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Do we have to open up the wehrmacht article with a parade for hitler? It gives the wrong idea of the wehrmacht, which was the armed forces of germany long before the nazi party established power in germany. Most people do focus it on nazism and wwii, I think we can try to educate people to think beyond that.

Katyn

The article says-regular armed forces-NKVD was a secret police(like Gestapo) not regular military formation.

Comparative Ranks

There should be a page "Comparative ranks of Nazi Germany" or similar, mabe including paramilitary (SS, SA) ranks as well.

Rommel as C-in-C

Hello all. Is there a reason why Erwin Rommel is listed down as a Commander-in-Chief of the OKH in this page? Thanks, Steph, 12 March 2006

Pre-War years

Excuse me if this is a stupid question, but why isn't there any mention of the Wehrmachts pre-war armament and involvement in the Spanish Civil War? --JPC290

Photo of dead soldier

I deleted the photo of the dead soldier. See the Waffen-SS discussion and Fallschirmjäger.

Bleh999, see the Waffen-SS discussion and Fallschirmjäger.

Erich Hoepner

The section on resistance really needs a re-write. It lists Hoepner as one of the officers who "opposed the atrocities of the Hitler regime"(!). This is really wrong. Hoepner was one of the German generals who worked most assiduously in applying the Commissar Order and in working with the Einsatzgruppen in murdering Jews in the Baltic states in 1941. Hoepner most certainly did not oppose atrocities, and instead was intimately involved with Einsatzgruppe A (which was was the most murderous of the four Einsatzgruppen in 1941) in the murder of defenceless Jewish men, women and children. The man was a war criminal pure and simple, and this page should should not be white-washing him.--A.S. Brown (talk) 23:21, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

That needs to be corrected ASAP then.Also the whole section is unbalanced towards presenting Wehrmacht as resisting instead of having actual proportions where most of its activity was connected to genocide. Unfortunately many of the resistance members are presented as "resisting atrocities" where they only resisted Hitler, and were deeply involved in atrocities themselves.--MyMoloboaccount (talk) 12:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)