Talk:Edersee Dam

message: User 74.243.226.38 aded the following to the main text: My Name is Rose Taylor, I was born in 1932 in Hemfurth Germany, where this dam was build. I was 11 years old in that terrible air raid on the dam in 1943, and saw many dead people and animals. It was all farm land. Every town below us in the way of the river had the same chance of survival as we did in Hemfurth.None.It was death everywhere. But this is the first time I have heard of 749 Ukrainian POWs in labor camps just below the dam that supposed to have drowned. We had only one camp in town with about 12 french prisonors, and they were free to go to work on the farms because we had very few of our own men from town left at home. They were all fighting the war. Also the dam holds 204.4 million cubic meter of water, for as long as I have lived there and known the statistics of the dam. Thank you... Rose Taylor I have removed this because the existing text regarding the 749 Ukrainian POWs and the volume of water in the dam are the same in the more extensive German version of this article --JBellis 17:29, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, the German version says the death toll is disputed. 85.179.10.129 14:18, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: There is a major discrepancy between the volume given in the main text in cu. metres - obviously wrong - and the figure in the data box at the side which at least seems plausible!  88.107.95.50 (talk) 13:23, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
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message: Technically, in English, destroyed is an absolute term; thus, "partially destroyed" is an oxymoron. Destroy or destroyed denote total destruction. From Webster's online:
:Definition of DESTROY
:transitive verb
::1 - to ruin the structure, organic existence, or condition of <destroyed the files>; also : to ruin as if by tearing to shreds <their reputation was destroyed> 
::2   a - to put out of existence : kill <destroy an injured horse> 
::: b - neutralize <the moon destroys the light of the stars> 
:::c - annihilate, vanquish <armies had been crippled but not destroyed — W. L. Shirer
:::— http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/destroyed
Note the quote from William Shirer, a prominent journalist of the era and sometime historian of the war.
It's part of the erosion of our language that nowadays destroyed often is employed in casual use when what is meant is "damaged." In this case the appropriate phrase to describe the effect of the — in my view malicious — "bouncing bomb" attack on the Edersee Dam would be heavily damaged. The attack made a large break in the dam that was subsequently repaired.
Sca (talk) 15:33, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I decided on "breached" as a term to describe the damage to the dam. Sca (talk) 23:56, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
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