Shannon V. OKeets
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Joined: 5/19/2005 From: Honolulu, Hawaii Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: wosung It should be "Wehrkreis", not "Wehrkries". For German units, I would like to have mentioned, when they were sadly involved in war crimes, because it's part of there "legacy". This legacy is virulent even today. There are still international law-cases abot this. Anglo-american history tends to view the russo-german war as just a "normal" war, which it wasn't. For example: Involvement of units of the 6th Army in Babi Jar massakers in the Ukraine, or of 1st? mountain division in the execution of italian prisoners in 1943 on the greek islands. But that's just my point of view. Without dismissing, minimizing, or attempting to gloss over these atrocities, I agree with Borger that MWIF is not the place for discussing them. A unit writeup is meant to be short and discuss the historical unit in terms comparable to how the player will use it in the game. Its creation, participation in battles, and eventual dissoution (should that happen) are similar to what the players do with units while playing the game. In particular, I like that even in the first 6 units Jesper has done, there are instances of units being destroyed and then reformed, exactly as they are in WIF: out in the front lines, destroyed in combat, back to the force pool, into production, then returning to the front lines. A few additional sentences to add flavor and keep them from all reading the same is pretty much essential. As a general guideline, I would like to avoid content about atrocities.
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