Talk:German Army (German Empire)

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1 Lack of information regarding genocide, war crimes and atrocities made by this German military
2 Numbers?? (Strength?)
3 The german's atrocities
4 WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

[edit] Lack of information regarding genocide, war crimes and atrocities made by this German military

The article lacks information about war crime and atrocities comitted by German Empire's Army, for example the Herero Genocide,Pogrom of Kalisz, Massacres of Belgian civilians. --Molobo (talk) 23:07, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Numbers?? (Strength?)

How many soldiers where there in the German Army?? I couldn't find any useful numbers.Johnny2323 (talk) 12:05, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

That depends on when. In July 1867, the army of the North German Confederation had a peacetime strength of 302,633. This did not include the armies south of the Main - those of Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden and Hesse-Darmstadt (except for the part of Hesse north of the Main).

After the mobilization at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, the total strength of the field army, including the southern states, was about 850,000. To these would be added several hundred thousand more in the replacement army and fixed commands.

The constitution of the German Empire provided for a peacetime strength of approximately 1% of the population. In October 1893, total peacetime strength was 22,391 officers and 534,100 men.

By 1914, this was, according to one source, 34,870 officers and 663,578 men (the number of officers may be a little high; as of the October 1913, that should have been 30,029). On mobilization in August 1914, the army grew to 3,840,000 of all ranks. Of this, about 2.1 million were in the field army. At the end of 1914, the field army grew to 3 million men. At the end of 1915, this was 3.8 million and at the end of 1916, 4.5 million. There were about 8 million total around the end of 1917 and beginning of 1918, but I'm not sure of the breakdown between field army and home army. 13 million men served in the German Army in World War I. Airbornelawyer (talk) 18:21, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The german's atrocities

I would like also to clarify the fact that there are genocide of Maji Maji of 1896 to be specified but also highlight the fact that the German imperial army was involved, apart from in some cases, in exemplary fashion, and that the Belgian massacre of civilians was a horrible massacre and unjustifiable but we have to denote how you can not remember only the negative aspects but also those of positives. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.11.106.46 (talk) 17:30, 4 May 2008 (UTC)