Overleg:Mechelen-aan-de-Maas
Onderwerp toevoegenSorry for asking in English: Nederlandstalige Wikipedia has no mention of the en:Mechelen incident in January 1940, apart from a section in Duitse_aanval_op_Nederland_in_1940#Vooravond, while 11 other Wikipedias have separate articles? Ah, okay, it is hidden in Vucht, the monument covered in Monument Messerschmitt Bf 108. I'm going to interwiki-link that little orphan.
The Mechelen incident of 10 January 1940, also known as the Mechelen affair, took place in Belgium during the Phoney War in the first stages of World War II. A German aircraft with an officer on board carrying the plans for Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), the German attack on the Low Countries, crash-landed in neutral Belgium near Vucht in the modern-day municipality of Maasmechelen within the Province of Limburg. This prompted an immediate crisis in the Low Countries and amidst the French and British authorities, whom the Belgians notified of their discovery; however, the crisis abated relatively quickly once the dates mentioned in the plans passed without incident. It has been argued that the incident led to a major change in the German attack plan, but this hypothesis has also been disputed.
L'incident de Mechelen est l'accident d'un avion allemand qui s'est écrasé le 10 janvier 1940, durant la drôle de guerre, à Vucht, près de Mechelen-aan-de-Maas (Malines-sur-Meuse), en Belgique. À bord se trouvait un officier qui transportait des documents ultra-secrets du plan Jaune (Fall Gelb), détaillant la future attaque allemande sur la Belgique, les Pays-Bas, le Luxembourg et la France. Cet événement produit immédiatement une situation de crise. Il se pourrait que cet accident ait forcé l'état-major allemand à changer ses plans, mais cette hypothèse fait débat chez les historiens.
Matthead (overleg) 31 jan 2022 01:32 (CET)
- hello matthead,
- thanks for this usefull information! i didn't know those details, i will do my best to translate it and use it for the dutch wikipedia, jan (overleg) 31 jan 2022 11:24 (CET)