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The result was: promoted by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:19, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland

 * ... that The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland was the first official document to inform the Western Allies about the Holocaust? Source: David Engel, In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Polish Government-in-exile and the Jews, 1939-1942 p. 200
 * ALT1:... that The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland was based on reports from the Polish underground state and the Jewish Labor Bund? Source: Zimmerman, The Polish underground state and the Jews, p. 181
 * ALT2:... that The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland described the Grossaktion Warsaw, in which more than 250,000 Polish Jews were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto and murdered at Treblinka extermination camp? Source: For more than 250,000,  For Treblinka,  Marcin Urynowicz, Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), Gross Aktion – Zagłada Warszawskiego Getta (Gross Aktion – Annihilation of Warsaw Ghetto). For the mention in the report, Zimmerman 181.
 * ALT3:... that The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland, the first official document to inform the Western Allies about the Holocaust, was only published after more than a third of Polish Jews had already been murdered? Source: Engel p. 200; Cesarani Holocaust: Responses to the persecution and mass murder of the Jews p. 173
 * ALT4:... that The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland, the first official document to inform the Western Allies about the Holocaust, was only published after more than a million Polish Jews had already been murdered? Source: same as above
 * ALT5:... that The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland, the first official document to inform the Western Allies about the Holocaust, was only published after the majority of Polish Jews had already been murdered? Source: same as above, also "By the end of 1942 a large majority of Poland’s Jews had been killed."
 * Reviewed: Timișoara Fortress

Created by Metoody (talk) and Catrìona (talk). Nominated by Catrìona (talk) at 13:46, 7 August 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Article is new enough and long enough. I cannot access a number of sources to I'll need to AGF on many things. I wonder where in source #5 it says "underestimate". Under this proviso I think that the first hook is the most interesting. QPQ is done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:44, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review and catching the issue with the source. I've added another source supporting that fact. I have no objection to the first hook being used. Catrìona (talk) 12:43, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg unless someone has WP:SYNTH concerns about the new source (#6). Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 13:59, 8 August 2018 (UTC)