Talk:Erich von dem Bach

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There is no significant evidence to show that this fellow and his family were anything other than wholly Germanised citizens of Prussia and that they spelt their names accordingly. The blatant Polish spellings in this article should all be changed to the correct ones. Also, someone who was, according to this article, so positively evil and responsible for tens of thousands of deaths and yet never charged for any of them seems too good to be true. I shall investigate some of the Western histories on this. Regards, David Lauder (talk) 20:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

The 'Slavic origin' part of the article is based mostly on the Polish wiki art, which, in turn, was based on works of Von dem Bach's biographer - Marek Dzięcielski. He uses "Żelewski" were his sources (mostly Church documents) are using that form. And the name of von dem Bach's father - Otton Jan von Żelewski is spelled with a "Ż". It is highly probable that Erich von dem Bach knew both Polish and Kashubian, as he attended schools in Wejherowo, Chojnice and Brodnica and to most of his school mates Polish and Kashubian were their mother tongues. 87.206.96.114 (talk) 11:30, 6 April 2008 (UTC) (sorry, forgot to log myself in ;-) Barry Kent (talk) 11:31, 6 April 2008 (UTC))

Don´t get me wrong, but I don´t think that in an official Prussian registers around 1890 anybody would write a name like “Elżbieta Ewelina Szymańska”, as the letters “ż” or “ ń” are unknown in German and these registers are written in German. As well the name “Szymanska” is the Polish female version of Szymanski, while in German names aren´t declined. Most probably his mothers name in the official records is “Elisabeth Eveline Schimansky” or something like that. I´d really like to see the original register. And that´s just the same with “Otton” , isn´t it rather “Otto” (Ludwik / Ludwig)? This section seems to be a translation of Polish WP, declining the original names ( as usual in Polish ) as a proof that these people were Kashubians, but this “evidence” is just a soap bubble.

Don´t get me wrong, there were several noble families with kashubian or slavic ancestors in that region, but most of them wouldn´t define themselves as Kashubians as they where assimilated to German / Prussian culture long before, so the whole section gives a wrong impression.(HerkusMonte (talk) 13:35, 16 April 2008 (UTC))