Talk:Stalag VII-A

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Whoever posted the link to the Liberation of Stalag VIIA essay should have noticed that it was liberated by Combat Command A of the 14th Armored Division, not just the 47th Tank Battalion.

Lt. Gen. AP Clark, the American G-2 (Intelligence officer) at both Luft III and later Stalag VIIA concluded in his memoirs that there were 130,000 allied prisoners of war at Moosburg. This number was based on his personal examination of the Camp Commandant's files shortly after liberation.

Endnote Number 4. link was to wrong website. It should be to the website where original essay is published. I changed it, but could not figure out how to restore other endnote links. Sorry. I suggest that the endnotes not be formatted in such a way as to prevent easy correction.

The proper way to refer to the stalag is Stalag VIIA, without a hyphen or space between the roman numeral and the "A" (not "Stalag VII-A"). Someone who knows how should edit the page title accordingly. Otherwise, searches for this page using the correct nomencalture will not find it.

===Before making changes to articles, be sure of your facts, and learn how to edit. I suggest that you register as an editor Syrenab 13:08, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] listing of stalags and oflags

The previous write (unregistered) is incorrect. All oflags and stalags were officially listed WITH the hyphen Stalag VII-A and NOT Stalag VIIA

Syrenab 12:24, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I am the author of "The 14th Armored Division and the Liberation of Stalag VIIA." published in the Fall, 2005 issue of On Point: The Journal of Army History, and republished with endnotes on the official website of the 14th Armored Division Association and Moosburg Online. I suppose you must be right, and I should get my facts straight before editing this page. Any suggestions on how I could learn more about the liberation of Stalag VIIA?

Stalag VIIA was the largest POW camp in Germany because it held a far greater number of prisoners than any other camp. The physical size of the camp is clearly of secondary importance, and remains to be proven.

No problem. Whether to have a hyphen or not is not that big an issue. Many references in the literature have a hyphen, others don't.

Why don't you register as an editor? So many of the edits done by anonymous editors turn out to be vanadalism or spam and then have to be corrected.

Syrenab 15:50, 5 October 2006 (UTC)