Wikipedia:Nazi affiliation task force

Welcome to the Nazi affiliation task force. This project derived out of a discussion at WP:GERMANY over the lack of adequate coverage of Nazi involvement and collaboration of companies, notable individuals and the use of forced labour among other things. This list is primarily interested in the cases where attempts at whitewashing or WP:UNDUE weight on an individual or company's Nazi affiliation are present.

Wikipedia articles that most likely suffer from this issue are where individuals/companies continue to operate/exist after World War II. While IG Farben is indisputably associated with Zyklon B, its successor companies Bayer, Agfa-Gevaert and BASF each distance themselves from any major involvement in the Holocaust.

Related WikiProjects include WP:COMPANIES, WP:MILHIST, WP:GERMANY, WP:LABOUR and WP:WikiProject Jewish History.

Relevant policies and essays

 * WP:UNDUE
 * WP:NOTCENSORED
 * Criticism
 * Wikipedia's Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht and What You Can Do About it

Task force participants

 * 1) IBM and VW Shushugah (he/him • talk) 15:49, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
 * 2) Ermenrich (talk) 16:04, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
 * 3) asilvering (talk) 19:08, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
 * 4)  19:38, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
 * 5) (t &#183; c)  buidhe  19:45, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
 * 6)   HurricaneEdgar    02:13, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Companies

 * IBM (no mention beyond WWII)
 * Dehomag
 * IBM and the Holocaust (a book)
 * List of international subsidiaries of IBM
 * Lempertz, involved in art theft/sales
 * Rheinmetall (stubbed for being WP:PROMO and needs a rewrite)
 * Volkswagen AG
 * Heinrich Nordhoff
 * Weidmüller (article says WWII caused them to "change their products" and not much else)
 * Non-exhaustive list of German firms that used slave labour during the Nazi era (only as a starting point for further investigation; JVL generally considered unreliable)
 * Catalogue of camps and prisons in Germany and German-occupied territories: Supposed to be an exhaustive list, if anyone has library access to this
 * Catalogue of camps and prisons in Germany and German-occupied territories: Supposed to be an exhaustive list, if anyone has library access to this

Individuals
Relevant categories:

Businesspeople

 * Kurt Hamann

Cultural

 * Hermann Aubin (historian)
 * Karl Bosl (historian)
 * Otto Brunner (historian)
 * Werner Conze (historian)
 * Otto Höfler (philologist)
 * Walter Kuhn (historian)
 * Theodor Schieder (historian)
 * Hermann Voss (art historian)
 * Hermann Voss (art historian)

Politicians

 * Hermann Conring (politician) (Bundestag)
 * Theodor Oberländer (Bundestag, also historian)

Political legacy

 * Denazification
 * Historikerstreit
 * Myth of the clean Wehrmacht
 * Vergangenheitsbewältigung