Talk:Gustav Anton von Wietersheim

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This article is under construction, i.e. in process of being built from the ground up. Please bear with me on issues of editing and citation as my list of sources and organization of the material is constantly in flux (not to mention the unreliablility of my internet connection at home, near my compiled set of sources). Analysis, as the new information is synthesized into the existing set of data I have collected, will be also in development. Hence, this should be considered by those whom might want to cite this article itself as a source of information on Gen. W. At this time, it is a work-in-progress. This developmental process is a difficult, but necessary task for all scholarship, but particularly for this subject: Wietersheim is almost absent from source material, he is not by any means a major figure of WWII. He did, however, occupy some intriguing positions of authority before WWII, and his actions in the lead-up to the war and several battles (esp. Stalingrad) coincided with some of the most crucial events related to the conflict. Thus one may look at this article as an attempt to "recapture" an historical figure that has faded from the face of common knowledge about WWII.

I should be able to "finish" this article within the next two weeks. There will then be a period of revision, which will hopefully include some interesting information I have requested from the Telford Taylor Papers at the Diamond Law Library at Columbia University. This is an interrogation from 1948 that is not included in the readily-available official papers of the Nuremberg Trials--it exists only in paper form at this location. Hopefully, after I translate it, it will provide a unique insight into W.'s participation in post-war affairs.

Thank you for your patience.

Lrschum 03:28, 6 August 2007 (UTC)