Talk:Operation Plunder

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Class change - why?[edit]

When reducing the class from "B" to "start", it would be useful to update the criteria checklist. That way, its deficiencies can be addressed more easily. Folks at 137 17:34, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Operation Plunder, widespead looting by British forces[edit]

In Anthony Beevor's book, Berlin - The Downfall 1945, he cites widespead looting by British troops, Beevor mentions the scale of plundering was so enormous that one of the officers from Scots Guard, wrote in his memories that in hindsight "Operation Plunder" was an appropriate description. Beevor mentions SAS soldiers robbing paintings from collections and hiding the canvases in the mortar barrels. Some British tanks had so many stolen itens placed upon them, that their turrets could not turn. I think reference to Beevor's book should be made in the articel, Surfing bird 03:44, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The looting was far more widespread and not really just associated with Operation Plunder. At the end of the war, the British and Americans for example had to pay 220,000 British pounds in compensation for looting in the Dutch town of nijmegen. There was always looting and the looting just accelerated as the fighting died down toward the end of the war. 12.12.144.130 (talk) 15:35, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

wrong photo[edit]

The photo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crossingtherhine.jpg is not from operation plunder, It is from St. Goar (description). Can someone change it? --Kyopy (talk) 00:26, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Amazing[edit]

An operation on this scale, and all the artillery and aerial bombing that went into it, massive river crossings by armed forces, and the Germans didn't loose a single man killed, not even any wounded! That has to be unprecedented, especially among WWII battles. No losses but for the exactly 16,000 men captured. Like I said, amazing. AnnaGoFast (talk) 02:10, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]