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Stargard/Pomerania ![edit]

You know, there were a number of places in "Deutsches Reich" which bore the name "STARGARD", or similar:

1. Stargard in Pommern (now Stargard Szczecinski, Poland) 2. Stargard (Burg Stargard) in Mecklenburg 3. (Preussisch) Stargard, near Danzig (now Starogard Gdanski, Poland) 4. Stargardt (Brandenburg).

To give the exact place, one should name "Stargard in Pommern" here Thanks, WernerE (german wiki), 18.2.05

Above originally posted in the article by 129.187.244.28. Moved here by Lupo 11:00, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Frau von Blomberg was not a former prostitute[edit]

The claim made here (which I had to remove twice) that Frau von Blomberg was a former prostitute is erroneous. Both Len Deighton in his book Blitzkrieg and Ian Kershaw in Volume 2 of his Hitler biography say quite clearly that the Frau Blomberg's criminal record was for posing for pornographic photos, not prostitution. The claim that Frau Blomberg was a former prostitute was just a malicious smear on the part of Hermann Göring to discredit Blomberg, something that far too people are willing to repeat today, presumably because it sounds more salacious-A.S. Brown (talk) 22:44, 8 June 2010 (UTC)--.[reply]

Indeed, that is my understanding as well, and it's what the main body of the article says. Am removing the claim from the intro.Paulturtle (talk) 02:43, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Paul!--A.S. Brown (talk) 09:15, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate of photo[edit]

I don't see the value of having two identical photos of von Blomberg in the one article (one being hand-coloured I believe). I would remove the hand-coloured altogether and move up the black-and-white to take its place. After a week, and without comment, I shall edit to reflect my view.shall

I think the colorized photo is fine 71.178.8.66 (talk) 23:29, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pour la Merite reference[edit]

I don't know how to add references, so if anyone wanted to remove the Citation Needed tag in the section on his early life, the reference for him being decorated with the Pour la Merite is: Kirstin A. Schäfer: Werner von Blomberg – Hitlers erster Feldmarschall. Eine Biographie. Paderborn 2006. ISBN 3-506-71391-4, S. 25–29. (as cited in his article in the German wiki). Supporting evidence that he had it: it's the big cross hanging round his neck in the photograph. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.63.76 (talk) 10:15, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]