Talk:International Brigades

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Nonsensical infobox, country section

The country section of the infobox is neither arranged by the number of volunteers by country or by alphabetical order. It ought to be one or the other to avoid nonsensical ordering. It was arranged by the number of volunteers until the revision as of 16:13, 7 August 2021 by 188.164.221.51 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.58.65.226 (talk)

Casualties

the lead of this article claimed that there were 15,000 IB combatants killed, with quotations pointing to Thomas (2003) and Beevor (2006). Unfortunately I do not have access to these books, so can not check. As to Thomas: GoogleBooks offers limited view of the 2013 edition, which lists fatal casualties for the French (1000), Germans (2000), Americans (900) and British (500), which leads nowhere near the total of 15,000 (maybe Thomas revised it between 2003 and 2013?). I have Beevor on my shelf in its Polish version, and have not found there the 15,000 figure alleged in the footnote (maybe they have dropped it?).

I have also compiled info from other authors on KIA, and published it in the "Casualties" section. It demonstrates that estimates range from 15,000 to 6,500, with perhaps most authors inclined to adopt 10,000.

Given the above, I have deleted the figure of 15,000 in the lead and replaced it with 10,000.

regards, --2A02:A317:2144:1A80:E121:A418:9430:E7D7 (talk) 10:46, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The flag of the International Brigades

Was this flag ever used during the war, or is it a design that was invented afterwards (by combining the Spanish flag of 1931-1939 with the three-cornered star emblem)? Apeloverage (talk) 19:58, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]