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)

resumed work
I've spent some more time building this entry, especially regarding W's early career and his conflicts with Hitler. For the first of these, I've had to rely somewhat on oblique sources, i.e. without much material on W in general, his identity as an officer based on his age, posting, and movement through the ranks later shines some light on what kind of person he was in the German context. If this is at all confusing, and if anybody has any suggestions on how to make this more clear, by all means let me know via the Talk page. I've written other encyclopedia articles, not just for Wikipedia, but for printed sources, and this issue can be difficult to address when the source material is too remote to be incorporated viably into an article (i.e. I might have to go to Germany and interview his descendents to get some of this information), yet one would like to give the reader a more full picture of whomever or whatever the subject of the article is/was. Lrschum (talk) 20:45, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Keitel and 1939 issue
As per the suggestions of two readers/editors, I've removed the bit about the confusing aspect of Keitel's memoirs and the 1938/39 Wietersheim-Hitler arguments, which appeared too speculative. In its place I added a note in the references, simply stating the fact that Keitel doesn't mention the 1938 incident in his memoirs. If anyone has any other suggestions, please post on this page. Lrschum (talk) 21:07, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

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Preserving here by providing this link; my rationale was: "c/e; npov; uncited intricate detail unrelated to subject's notability; unsourced editorialising; OR & SYNTH". --K.e.coffman (talk) 01:20, 2 December 2018 (UTC)