User talk:Jdh1234

August 2015
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Eduard Wirths
Can you please discuss and explain your changes on the talk page? Thank you.Volunteer Marek (talk) 01:51, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi Volunteer Marek, there is a lot of misinformation due to secondhand sources on this individual. The best and so far only primary source is the one I correct the misinfo with: Hermann Langbein was Dr. Eduard Wirth's communist, Jewish medical secretary at KL Auschwitz. Langbein wrote People in Auschwitz and I've linked a PDF of the eponymous chapter title; that book is published in association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Langbein is incredibly critical of the Nazis/Naziism, etc. Langbein exonerates Wirths except in the area of Wirth's indirect involvement with a single experiment that tested an experimental Typhus Vaccine. Wirths is a complex character, but in many respects he was essentially a "good guy" in the wrong place at the wrong time trying to do the right thing. Thanks.


 * May I recommend you review Wikipedia's guidelines on WP:Reliable sources? Primary sources should generally be avoided; secondary sources are preferred. One of the issues Volunteer Marek has raised is with the point-of-view of the material you've added; primary sources are tricky to use because they are, by their nature, not neutral. —C.Fred (talk) 02:52, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi Fred, Langbein is virtually the only source of info for Wirths at Auschwitz. Langbein was a Jewish prisoner there; nobody is more qualified than Langbein to write about Wirths. Thanks.


 * Please see WP:3RR. You've broken the 3 revert rule on the article. You should self-revert yourself and then discuss your proposed changes on talk.
 * As far as Langbein goes, he is a primary source. Please read WP:PRIMARY. You can use secondary sources which discuss Langbein though. But again, your edits should be discussed on talk.Volunteer Marek (talk) 05:38, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

I did read WP:PRIMARY and "The phrase "original research" (OR) is used on Wikipedia to refer to material—such as facts, allegations, and ideas—for which no reliable, published sources exist.[1]" People in Auschwitz is a published historical document not original research.

August 2015
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