Talk:Walter von Reichenau

message: The article contained the patently false claim that German generals as a whole were not active
Antisemites, I deleted the nonsense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.155.180.111 (talk • contribs) 
:While it is true that some of them were, it is also important to note that many of them, as a matter of fact, a large portion of them, were apolitical and disagreed with many of Hitler's policies, including actively promoting anti-Semitism and carrying out persecution. Even if some were even mildly anti-Semite, many of them were more concerned with the state of their military careers than their political ones. Эйрон Кинни (t) 11:52, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not completely absurd as the German generals were often Prussian and Prussia was a place where people moved to from both different places from within Germany and Europe (thus it was less tradition-bound and attracted a fair number of Jews who saw it as a place to succeed; see "The Iron Kingdom - the Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600 - 1947" by Christopher Clark); I've also read that it frequently happened that the daughters of wealthy Jewish merchants would marry the youngest sons of Prussian military families because the latter had squandered their wealth (and needed money to maintain their lifestyles) while the former used the marriage to gain access to Prussian political society (so that many Prussian generals have a "drop in Jewish blood in their veins". At any rate keep in mind if you want to make the argument that most German generals were actively anti-Semitic the burden of proof is on you to show it; pointing to lack of protests against Judeocide is maybe not sufficient in my opinion. Historian932 (talk) 21:38, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anti-Semitism among German generals 

message: Many sources, including the German version of Wikipedia, write the birthdate for von Reichenau as October 8. What are the sources for August 16? Igoulet 16:18, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthday 

message: Can I get comments about the section (below) I'd like to insert?
Radixetramus (talk) 17:46, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: Header of proposed addition to article was originally a second-level heading, but I changed it to a third-level heading to allow for easier discussion. CabbagePotato (talk) 01:57, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: With all due respect, you are confusing opposition to a particular policy choice, namely Hitler's plans to invade France in October-November 1939 with opposition to the Nazi regime. If anything, this is actually loyalty to Hitler as Reichenau saw himself as trying to save Hitler from himself. The offensive planned for the fall of 1939 ended up being cancelled because of winter came early in 1939, and it happened to be an extremely cold winter that year. Contrary to what almost everybody thinks, Hitler had no plan for a swift victory over France. The Wehrmacht plans called for the Wehrmacht to seize part of northern France, which would be used for air and naval attacks against Britain. As for the rest of France, the Wehrmacht generals though that the earliest the French could be defeated was in the summer of 1942 (so much for plans for a swift victory!). What is known as the Manstein plan after General Erich von Manstein, who came up with the basic idea, first appeared in January 1940 and was only adopted as the German plan in February 1940. This whole story above is dubious and questionable, but even it is true, did Reichnau betray the Manstein plan? Merely to ask that question is to answer it. The German historian Klaus-Heinze Muller once defined resistance as someone having the "will to overcome the system", which is certainly not the case here. Anyone familiar with Reichenau's actions in Ukraine in 1941-1942 will know that he was a hardcore anti-Semite responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian Jews, most notably at the Babi Yar massacre in September 1941 where much of the Jewish population of Kiev were shot down a the Babi Yar ravine. In no-way, can this ardently Nazi general whom Hitler tried very hard to appoint as commander-in-chief of the German Army in 1934, be considered an opponent of the Nazi regime. --A.S. Brown (talk) 07:16, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  To follow Nazi Support section 

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message: So, is it Walther or Walter?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by James Galloway (talk • contribs) 19:56, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
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message: On page 280 of the English-language version of "Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying" by So″nke Neitzel and Harald Welzer" it states that Reichenau won an assault badge while a field marshal in Russia (it does not say whether General or Infantry Assault). The footnote reads as follows: "For more detail on Reichenau, see Johannes Huerter, Hitlers Heerfuehrer: Die deutschen Oberbefehlshaber im Krieg gegen die Sowjetunion, 1941/42 (Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2006). See also Brendan Simms, "Walther von Reichenau -- Der politische General," in Die Militaerelite des Dritten Reiches, Ronald Smesler and Enrico Syrings, eds. (Berlin: Ullstein, 1995), pp. 423-45. Timm Richter is also writing a dissertation on Reichenau." Historian932 (talk) 21:44, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assault Badge as a Field Marshal 

message: All sources from the article that I've looked at, and the page in the German Wikipedia, have 'Walter', so I propose to move this article to "Walter von Reichenau". Any comments? Colonies Chris (talk) 08:40, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Walther or Walther? 

message: "One of his brothers was Ernst von Reichenau."
Why is Ernst (of whom we get nothing more than this) more important than some other brother?2A02:AA1:1621:E578:9D94:673D:DD05:8F29 (talk) 17:15, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The importance of being Ernst