Talk:Robey Leibbrandt

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There are so many mistakes in your article about Sidney Robey Leibbrandt:

1 The Forenames and the familyname are wrong

2 Robey never was a "would-be assassin"

3 The German Abwehr did not contac Robey in 1936

4 Robey did not met Hitler personally (shaking hands of so)

5 Robey did not get a "signed copy of Mein Kampf"

6 There were no "paratrooper wings" in the German army

7 Hitler did not ordered Canaris

8 Robey was not ordered to kill Smuts

9 Robey was not dropped at Namibia`s coast

10 therefore he could not proceed to South Africa

11 Robey Leibbrandt was not arrested on the grounds of General Smuts' house outside Pretoria

12 When arrested Robey did not get a "German sniper's rifle"

13 His sentence was not commuted to life imprisonment on 11th March 1943.

Where did you find this incorrect story? If you want to know more about the (correct) facts of Sidney Robey Leibbrandt you may contac me. I am sorry, but my English is too bad. If possible speak German or Afrikaans with me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BRL (talk • contribs) 23:19, 28 March 2006

Changes to the second name

From what I have researched so far (Google search of websites related to Robey) he was never "Robert" but "Robey". This should be corrected as well as a heap of factual errors. As soon as I have all the relevant refrences I will add more info and corrections. RDC 22:31, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Merge from Robby Liebrand

I'm redirecting the page Robby Liebrand (spelling mistake) to this page. The text on that page previously read as follows:

Robby Liebrand was a Boer South African national and German Intelligence (Abwehr) agent who conducted sabotage missions and propaganda in South Africa during the summer of 1941.

He had been transported to South Africa by Abwehr asset Christian Nissen aka. "Hein Mueck" leaving Brest on 3 April 1941. The voyage was made in the vessel "Kyloe" a requisitioned ocean-going yacht which had been built in Britain. The crew were selected German seamen and the yacht was classifed as an auxiliary warship of the German navy. Mueck was appointed as a naval lieutenant for the duration of the trip.

The voyage took sixty-seven days over a distance of eight thousand miles, and landfall was made on the Groen River, one hundred and fifty miles north of Cape Town. Nissen then made his way back to Villa Cisneros in Spanish Morocco.

Liebrand carried out a number of attacks against British interests in South Africa, detonating many bombs and was only captured after a long manhunt.

This was uncited and is missing important details, but too detailed in other places, and probably contains some incorrect statements. I'm leaving the text here in case anyone wants to salvage something.

I've also made many other edits and tried to tighten up the referencing and remove some of the more obviously incorrect statements listed above by User:BRL. I've only got internet references at my disposal and I think some of these aren't of a very high standard, so I would not be surprised if the article still needs significant improvements. However, I think it's a good start.

The format of my references is all wrong. I will look at correcting that soon, unless someone else gets to it first. Zaian 23:44, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Just saw this on en.metapedia.org

- 91.65.17.225 (talk) 21:09, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, your information has apparently been used. --Hyperboreer 00:05, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Proposal to decrease the number of German terms used

This is an English article after all. I'll try to cut down where I can, but I'd like someone with a better knowledge of the German language to provide the appropriate English terms where possible. --MaxRavenclaw (talk) 09:58, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

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