Talk:45th Infantry Division (United States)

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I forgot to login and performed a few edits under IP 67.118.17.3. — FJ | Talk 18:03, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Source for war crimes claim?

Hello, 217.82.36.172. Please provide a source for your May 1 claims:

In Sicily the division committed some of the worst war crimes of the allied forces, murdering hundreds of German and Italian prisoners of war.

and

...on April 29, 1945...murdering 520 of their surrendered German and Hungarian guards.

Here's a comparison of edits. — FJ | hello 16:24, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

(Later) I went ahead and removed the first claim and edited the second claim to highlight its allegation status. The only source I have for the claim of 520 Waffen-SS soldiers who were allegedly killed at Dachau does not insist on the accuracy of the figure or indeed of the events. I think this is probably justification for adding a special section to this article devoted to all of this. There is quite a lot of detail on this site for example but I am not sure where they got their information. — FJ | hello 12:15, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

I have edited this whole section to link to the relevant Wiki pages. There is no need to get into detailed discussion of this here, it is more efficient to discuss it on the page focussed on the crime. Andreas 10:22, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

"Day of Battle" by R. Atkinson has a detailed describtion of the three POW killings during the first days of the invasion of Sicily and the cover-up that followed.Markus Becker02 13:07, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Source

"Dachau, Hour of the Avenger" by Howard Buechner (who was a medical officer of the division in question). Also I've understood that the official U.S. Army documents about the happenings are no longer classified.

Buechner makes this claim, but I would like to see what he bases it on, since it is at odds with the other descriptions of the event. The original US Army Report does not give a number of casualties. Andreas 10:10, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of Swastika insignia

There is no reason to remove the insignia, unless it is historically not correct. It was the official shoulder patch prior to 1939, and as such should be shown. Before attempting to remove it again, please outline the reasons for the edit here. Andreas 15:41, 7 March 2006 (UTC)