lets do some POV analyse the text now says However on 6 June the effective strength of the 12th SS Panzer Division was 20 540 men and 150 tanks 42 By 23 August it was reduced to weak infantry elements no tanks no artillery the editor claims the statement come from Stacey Colonel Charles Perry Bond Major C C J Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War Volume III The Victory Campaign The operations in North West Europe 1944 1945 what says the article of colonel stacey On 22 and 23 August Army Group B reported3 the state of its eight armoured divisions as follows 12th S S Panzer Division 300 men 10 tanks no artillery stacey says that the rest of the divisions were casualties no the 12 SS suffered 8 000 casualties and the rest was pulled out of the line the remaining 300 men are a battle group lend to another division from the 12 SS article The units in the Division that were not fit for combat were ordered to pull back to Germany on 8 September leaving behind a small Kampfgruppe attached to the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich with citiation so what makes the editor here he takes a statement then he poved it a bit with the word reduced than he claims no tanks knowing it is wrong by the way the reported strenghts were grabenst rke the sense of this statement was to bring the reader some idea about german casualties on this battle by the way the 12 SS not even participated the full battle eye that s what u call reliably sourced material maybe the editor should be banned for a short while he faked a quote to support his POV please tll me eye is this POV which encyclopedia would come to the moronic idea of using this statement when it his has no overall figures