Talk:Wittenberg

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Here link about the Wittenberg project of the LC-MS and the Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church Germany:

http://www.selk.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=179&Itemid=99 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.226.249.204 (talk) 10:33, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Error in Article..
I want to go the stadium! Who would have known that, right in the middle of Wittenberg, was the Joseph-Goebbels-Stadium? What a tremendous blunder.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjjjc (talk • contribs) 13:49, 28 December 2010 (UTC)


 * This is not true. It is not in the article. --FeralOink (talk) 23:09, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Reinsdorf
I may have made a mistake. I removed Reinsdorf from the list of added places here, in the Wittenberg article. I did that because it was red lined, and when I searched on WP, I found Reinsdorf listed in a different district than Wittenberg, see Reinsdorf,_Saxony as of June 2012.

Just to be certain, to double check, I searched on Google, to confirm. I found this Maplandia entry for Sachsen-Anhalt, Wittenberg Reinsdorf. So I am uncertain if I did the right thing or not. --FeralOink (talk) 23:29, 25 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I reverted my prior edit. --FeralOink (talk) 23:39, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Duchy of Saxony
Was Wittenberg actually part of the original Duchy of Saxony? Looking at the maps it looks like it was east of the original stem duchy and that the lands around Wittenberg were simply acquired by the Ascanians who merged it with the Saxon territory they received when Saxony was partitioned (similar to how the Wettins merged Messien with Electoral Saxony). Emperor001 (talk) 19:40, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

First World War
Site of an incident described by H. DE VERE STACPOOLE:

Wittenberg

THE “Black Hole of Calcutta” and the “Well of Cawnpore,” those dark spots on the history of India, stand out in their blackness against fairly light surroundings. Wittenberg, as dark in its way as either, scarcely stands out in the History of Brutality which is the history of the German conduct of the great war. The terrible thing about Germany is the fact that she seems to have taken out letters patent for vileness; that vileness has become her right and prerogative, and that the neutral nations have accepted the fact as a natural one. A very mean man, once he gets a reputation for meanness, can commit mean acts without raising much adverse comment. In the same way Germany, by a system of uniform brutality, can commit “Wittenbergs” without creating any great excitement in the minds of neutral onlookers. If England were to starve her German prisoners and set dogs on them and thrash them, and force them to labor after the fashion of Germany, the howl of outraged neutrals would be heard through the two Americas and the Scandinavias. Germany does these things and worse, and there is no excitement over the business. It is the German method. But, thank God, the future of humanity is not in the hands of the neutrals, and the men whose part it will be to punish crimes will remember Wittenberg. If not, Louis Raemaekers will remind them.

And this: https://wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/pow/powcamp.php?pid=17934 [h[Special:Contributions/81.142.24.131|81.142.24.131]] (talk) 07:48, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

More info, in the heated language wartime tends to produce:

In the hideous record of what took place at Wittenberg, the fact which to me, personally, stands out in grotesque salience is the cowardice of the Hun doctors, who lied, incontinent, from the ravages of the pestilence which their negligence had provoked. In England, before the war, Hun doctors were exalted above our own. That we owe much to their indefatigable patience and research cannot be denied. To belittle their achievements, especially in bacteriology, would be fatuous. And it would be as fatuous to indict the courage of the many because we hold indisputable evidence of the cowardice of the few. Nevertheless, the facts of Wittenberg remain, an indelible stain upon the Herren Professoren. -HORACE ANNESLEY VACHELL

What actually happened??

213.205.194.83 (talk) 19:47, 2 May 2019 (UTC)