Template:Did you know nominations/Prague uprising


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:44, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Prague uprising

 * ... that Czech Jewish writer Arnošt Lustig survived Auschwitz, escaped, and returned to Prague in time to fight in the May 1945 uprising against German occupation? Source:
 * For "Auschwitz," "Arnošt Lustig, who had spent most of the war in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz..." (Pynsent 301)
 * For "writer" and "escaped, "Arnost Lustig, an author who escaped from a Nazi death transport to make the Holocaust the main theme of his fiction, died early yesterday"
 * For participation in the uprising, "I don't have any trauma, because I ended the war fighting them in the uprising in Prague" quoted in


 * ALT1:... that German soldiers were hung on lampposts and burned to death as revenge for the six-year Nazi occupation after the Prague uprising? Source: "Can we apply the word 'men' to those creatures who carried out the atrocities on 9 May on the Wenceslas and Charles squares and along the Road of the Knights, when they poured petrol over the Germans (and not just SS men), hung them feet upwards from poles and lanterns, set them alight and stood mocking at the sight of the burning torches?" quoted in Duffy, Christopher (2014). Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany 1945, pg. 283
 * ALT2:... that the Russian Liberation Army defected for the second time when it turned against Nazi Germany in the Prague uprising on 6 May 1945? "the open combat which broke out in Prague on 5 May, and on the next day the struggle took a bizarre but decisive turn when a force of Russians in German uniforms fought their way into the city. This was the 1st Division of General Andrei Vlasov's Army, which had been recruited by the Germans from Russian prisoners of war, and had new turned against its new masters. Vlasov's double turncoats were now in the position of being at war with both the German and Soviet armies" (Duffy 284), for Russian Liberation Army, "General Vlasov’s Russian Liberation Army" (Pynsent 284)

Expanded to GA by Catrìona (talk). Self-nominated at 01:04, 11 July 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Expanded to GA on 10 July, obviously long enough, well-written, heavily cited, neutral, no apparent copyvio. Interesting subject and hooks. QPQ not required (fewer than 5 nominations) but looks to have been done anyway here. My only quibble is about ALT0, in that Lustig fighting in the uprising is sourced to a quote from himself (I don't have WaPo access to check if the rest of the article confirms it). ALT1 is a bit grisly so I prefer ALT2, which is also broader than ALT0 in scope. I'm slightly unclear about "for the second time" - is the point that their agreeing to fight for Germany was the first defection, and their change on 6 May to attack German forces was a second defection? if I've understood that correctly and you're OK with using ALT2, would you mind striking ALT0 and ALT1? You might consider making ALT2 punchier by simply cutting out "defected for the second time when it". I'm happy to pass the DYK with ALT2 with or without that edit. Alternatively, if you prefer ALT0, could you clarify the sourcing here? &rsaquo;  Mortee  talk 14:00, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review! I have more sources for the original hook:
 * "After participating in the Prague uprising against the Nazis in May 1945, Lustig studied journalism, then covered the Arab-Israeli war in 1948."
 * "In 1945 he escaped from a transport train and joined those who were involved in the Prague uprising." Catrìona (talk) 14:19, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * In that case I'm OK with ALT0, but I still prefer ALT2 as more interesting (to me) and covering more of the history in the article. Do you prefer ALT0 still? Happy to tick, either way. &rsaquo; Mortee  talk 14:30, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I have no strong preference. Thanks again for the review! Catrìona (talk) 14:35, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg good to go with either ALT0 or ALT2 (I prefer ALT2, but the promoter can decide between them) &rsaquo; Mortee  talk 14:30, 4 August 2018 (UTC)