Template:Did you know nominations/Bratislava Working Group


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by RileyBugz 私に叫ぼう私の編集 18:34, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Bratislava Working Group
"Rabbi Weissmandel and his colleagues in the Working Group were not aware of the strange coincidences that caused  Wisliceny  to  reduce  the pressure for a while. They tended to believe that their proposal to Wisliceny and the bribes paid to the local hierarchy were what prevented the continued deportations. Based on this assumption, Weissmandel hatched the idea of expanding the “small  plan”—aimed  only  at  saving  the  lives  of Slovakia’s Jews—to halt deportations all over Europe by offering bribes and promising legal aid at the end of the war. ... Wisliceny presented the proposal to Eichmann in Berlin. The latter promised to relay it to Himmler.  In  November  1942 Wisliceny  informed  the Working Group that Himmler had agreed to the proposal  and  that  he  had  been  entrusted  with the task of negotiating with representatives of Slovakian Jewry. He named his price: three million dollars  in  return  for  halting  deportations  from western,  southern,  and  southeastern  Europe  to extermination camps in Poland."
 * ... that an illegal Jewish organization in an Axis puppet state proposed to ransom the lives of European Jews during the Holocaust with a $3 million bribe?
 * Source : Tuvia Friling, Arrows in the Dark volume 1, page 214:


 * For the location of the Working Group in Axis-aligned Slovakia and its illegality,


 * ALT1:... that an illegal Jewish organization in an Axis puppet state proposed an ambitious scheme to bribe Heinrich Himmler into halting the systematic extermination of European Jews?
 * Source : same as above

5x expanded by Catrìona (talk). Self-nominated at 22:27, 19 July 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg New and evidently eligible, properly written (kudos on rendering the later controversy in very encyclopedic tone) and formatted, Earwig's suggests that copyvio is unlikely. Both hooks check out and are interesting; speaking for myself, I prefer the original by a slim margin. QPQ not done, but as far as I can ascertain, the nominator is not yet required to. No copyvio in images, though I must (rather quietly) object to the portrait photographs of Friling, Tiso, and even a very aged Ben-Gurion: they add nothing to the understanding of the text, are literally one-click away from the article, and don't help with the format; the reader would be much better informed by photographs that show places, groups, events etc. Dahn (talk) 04:40, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback; I've made changes to the images in the article. This is my second DYK nomination. I have no preference between the hooks, so if you like the original better, we can go with that. Catrìona (talk) 14:21, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
 * No, thank you, Catrìona. This really is a great article. Dahn (talk) 15:12, 29 July 2018 (UTC)