Talk:George Eric Rowe Gedye

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I started this article as a straight translation from the German Wikipedia article on Gedyes, at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eric_Rowe_Gedye. I also copy/pasted the list of Gedye's works direct from German Wikipedia but only gave them a quick/light editing & translation--I'm sure that section needs more work. Also, I haven't transferred any of the citations from the German wikipedia article--that would be a logical next step for the article. The German article is reasonably well sourced; it is just a matter of transferring the sources over to this English article. Bhugh (talk) 00:20, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Date of departure from Vienna
The article needed correction. It stated that Gedye was deported from Vienna by the Gestapo “three days after the Anschluss”. This is false. I have consulted Gedye’s own detailed account, his book Fallen Bastions, a copy of which is available online via the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523807

If one reads the relevant section (pages 321-328) it is clear Gedye left Vienna on Monday 28 March 1938. As the Anschluss was on 12 March his departure followed over two weeks later, not “three days”. The three days comes from a passage where he is first ordered out of the country three days after Hitler’s speech on the Heldenplatz on 15 March, an order which was later rescinded.

I will now check the German version of this article to see if the mistake appears there as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.124.106.55 (talk) 13:56, 6 September 2020 (UTC)


 * The German article does not say when he departed, it only says when he was asked to leave. --Prüm (talk) 14:07, 6 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you. If you read what I wrote you will see there is the further confusion between the date of the Anschluss and the date of Hitler at the Heldenplatz. This passage of the article was written in too much of a hurry but is easy to correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.124.106.55 (talk) 14:32, 6 September 2020 (UTC)