Talk:Polish Armed Forces in the West

This article has been sabotaged. It talks about fighting the Ottoman Empire during World War Two. It talks about the PAF in the West being formed in "Uganda and its Swedish colonies."

I am not an expert on this field and cannot re-write but there is a lot work to do here.

24.179.116.81 (talk) 15:07, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Polish Armed Forces in the West Fails GA
This article is almost done BUT still has a little more to do to be GA


 * 1) If possible add an infobox (if not just skip this step)
 * 2) Try to make the opening paragraph two or more instead of one
 * 3) Clean up and link the article

Then its done, once these steps are completed the article is a good article. Any questions will I will be happy to answer this article. -- ( Cocoaguy ここがいい contribstalk) 02:06, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll work on the first 2, but I don't understand the 3rd point: what needs to be cleaned-up, and what links do you mean? The article has many ilinks and is not an orphan...?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 11:07, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't think the polish are the fourth western allies: 1/ USA 2/ Great-Britainlhj 3/ France (Free france- fighting france- GPRF) 4/ canada 5/poles

The polish have more men then Canada (but still less then france)but only with the eastern polish forces. clems78 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.68.28.200 (talk) 18:10, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

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B-class review
This article is currently at start/C class, but could be improved to B-class if it had more (inline) citations. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 22:01, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Transport
I'm very confused as to how thousands of Polish soldiers made it to France and the UK without being stopped by German forces. A land crossing would have been impossible and traveling by sea would have been easily stopped by the Kriegsmarine. I don't think this or any of the related articles clearly explain how this was possible. --The Vital One (talk) 00:55, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

Polish concentration camps
This material was removed for no reason, and I will be putting it back. The Polish concentration camps in Scotland for Polish citizens who were political opponents, gays, communists, or Jews were scandalous at the time, as was the abuse of Jewish soldiers by former Nazi soldiers, and were the subject of several hearings in parliament. This is all covered in a book chapter by historian Simon Webb who is an impeccable authority on the subject.

The Polish concentration camps for political opposition, communists, gays and Jews is a topic covered by historians. The abuse of Jews in the force was a major scandal from 1944 through the dissolution of this force. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Semper honestus (talk • contribs) 03:52, 22 May 2020 (UTC)  (banned user)


 * While some information about the camps may be relevant, we have to take care of WP:NPOV, WP:UNDUE, WP:FRINGE, and such. Certainly the term Polish concentration camps is, for starters, not neutral and is not a good section heading (also it tends to refer to a different controversy; see also British concentration camps). Please familiarize yourself with our policies and practice editing in non-controversial areas before trying to add information about a fringe controversy. PS. (also ping User:Darwinek who reverted your edit as well) I did look into this issue and it is not a hoax, but a very poorly researched topic that may merit a stand-alone article and a short mention here (but certainly not a dedicated section based on low-quality sources; UNDUE suggests a sentence would suffice). I found an academic study here:, another at , and possibly is related as well. There is some coverage of this in news sources as well (. , , ), but Wikipedia is trying to move from using the news to using academic works where possible (see WP:RS). Note that the correct neutral term would be something like detention/isolation/seclusion camp, not concentration. Comparing misdeeds by the Allies to Nazi war crimes and The Holocaust is not recommended, and borders on Holocaust denial. Even the source cited uses the term "Polish concentration camps" only in a chapter heading, as a form of an eye-catching headline ; Wikipedia is not a tabloid. Btw, who is Simon Webb? What are his academic credentials? PPS. A bit more digging shows some related articles on pl wiki, which are reasonably neutral and could be translated by an interested editor: pl:Stacje Zborne Oficerów w PSZ (main article), pl:Stacja Zborna Oficerów Rothesay, pl:Ośrodek Oficerski w Cerizay.  --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here