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Mechili Myth

Is there any reliable evidence, that the event mentioned by Milles (edited by Joseph Kessel and Arno Lustiger) is a myth - or is this just the private theorie of user Jerryscuba, who fights the same fight in the german wikipedia? --Feliks (talk) 13:32, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lustiger places the battle at Mechili near Bir Hakeim. A map is enough to see that these places are not even close to each other. How reliable can an author be who makes such mistakes? BTW the story is exactly the same between Paarssens and Lustiger. Since Paarssens wrote it earlier it's obvious who copied who. There were indeed Jewish troops under Koening at Bir Hakeim. But it's unlikely he didn't know them. The above author translated, the meanwhile deleted (not my doing) article, Battle of Bir el Harmat into German. The English article was based on the article in the French Wikipedia. Even there it is contested. Unfortunately he did not mention in his Article that his source, Lustiger, also placed the article at Mechili and not at Bir el Harmat. --Jerryscuba (talk) 14:12, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jerryscuba tries here to establish a theory that there is a "myth". He "proofs" his theory with some literature which describes this "myth" as fact, but he does not deliver any literature which describes the mentioned fact as as a myth. --Feliks (talk) 14:30, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]