Talk:Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig

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An entry from Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 11 May 2006.

Doesn't The Tin Drum deserve to be mentioned somewhere?

Dear anon, what's the relevance between TTD and this article?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 20:18, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

One of the chapters of The Tin Drum, the Polish Post Office, describes the events (fairly close to the Wikipedia article, though not mentioning the flamethrowers) through the eyes of the protagonist, Oskar, and his presumed father who was an employee of the Post Office and was sentenced to death and shot as described in the novel. User_talk:Zapiens

In that case, yes, I think it is relevant. Probably worth mentioning in the aftermath as a cultural reference.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 22:19, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Post

"Post" is a very ambiguous term (among other things, it means "military base)." Maybe better retitle the article: "Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig"? KonradWallenrod 16:26, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I have no objection. The title is becoming rather long, though.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 17:35, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Short incidents tend to get long titles. World War II, with its short title, was a fairly long incident. KonradWallenrod 18:49, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hand machine guns

What are hand machine guns? I assume that's meant to mean submachine gun? Geoff B 19:47, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I am not sure. On pl wiki there is an article about 'hand machine guns' (pl:Ręczny karabin maszynowy) which is different from submachine guns (which on pl wiki are listed at pl:Pistolet maszynowy).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 20:48, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah, it means light machine guns, I see. No problem. Geoff B 00:51, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

The Polish nomenclature might at times be hard to translate as rkm (literally hand-held machine gun) might be both a LMG and a SMG, but in this case it was the earlier. //Halibutt 07:38, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SS or SA?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_Corps_Feldherrnhalle#Early_campaigns says SA. --HanzoHattori 10:13, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I guess both. Also, infobox illustration: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafika:Atak_na_Polsk%C4%85_Poczt%C4%99_w_Gda%C5%84sku_1.09.1939.jpg --HanzoHattori 10:55, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Would be nice to add those pics here, or to Commons.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  11:50, 16 July 2007 (UTC)