Talk:Otto Schimek

A fact from Otto Schimek appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 September 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Otto Schimek was himself later executed for refusing to join a firing squad executing a Polish family in 1944?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/September.

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Pick or pick up?

Is the section on his death supposed to read "Locals were allowed to pick his body." (as it now does) or "Locals were allowed to pick up his body." ??? Justinleif 00:28, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One seemingly objective source ("Odmawiam wykonania rozkazu", Przewodnik Katolicki nr 39, Poznań, 28 września 1975 r.) has the following description of the events (in Polish):

The death sentence early November at daybreak, when in Tarnow and Dębicy and Machowa, the last shots could be heard from the already retreating German front. Obviously some friends of his, or even the commandant, from the campaign must have informed the family in Vienna. His mother wrote a pleading letter to the command for mercy for son. Unfortunately, letter came after the death sentence was carried out. ... An order came to bury the body in some nearby cemetery. Therefore, the body was exhumed and concealed to a cemetery in Machowa.

It does not mention who moved the body. Perhaps it was on orders from the military and is more correct account? — CZmarlin 02:50, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another Polish source Kościół Trójcy Przenajświętszej describes the following: ... he had been shot up in ditch, from where his body moved to a cemetery in Machowej. Once again, nothing about what "the locals were allowed to do." — CZmarlin 03:18, 9 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrality

Pl wiki has a totally different take, suggesting his legend is mostly a myth based on false facts. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 23:12, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]