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The Holocaust in Albania
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because…I plan to nominated it for MILHIST A-Class review and would appreciate some constructive feedback prior to taking this course of action.

Thanks, 23 editor (talk) 19:02, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Comments
 * Hi again. I'm quite surprised that our article on the Holocaust seems to imply that the majority POV is that non-Jews (including "most" of the 11 million non-Jewish victims, according to our article, Holocaust victims) who were killed in the concentration camps, including people with disabilities, various criminals, homosexuals, transsexuals, political prisoners, trade unionists, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Romani, Slavs, Poles, and Russians, weren't victims of the Holocaust, but victims of ... something else that was exactly like the Holocaust. I don't recall off the top of my head a single GLAM, film or book that has taken that position ... although I'm definitely no expert and I'm sure my fellow Milhisters can come up with some. I'm not offended by either position on this. But we may not have that problem with this article ... it's conceivable that the situation was different in Albania. We have to go with whatever sources we've got ... are they sure that only Jews and no one else was deported to concentration camps and killed? - Dank (push to talk) 00:29, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
 * As I understand it (and I'm no expert on the historiography of the Holocaust), the term is mainly applied to the murder of the Jews, and other terms are generally applied to the programs of murders of other peoples. The debate over the suitability of this terminology is pretty muted (for obvious, and sensible, reasons), but it exists. Nick-D (talk) 01:44, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks Nick, and see my reply to 23 below. - Dank (push to talk) 02:01, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
 * "newly-Communist": no hyphen per WP:HYPHEN
 * "An estimated total of approximately": All estimated totals are approximate.
 * "Albanian schools, something that had previously been prohibited under Yugoslavian rule": We just had this in another article ... if this is the same as "Albanian schools, which had previously been prohibited under Yugoslavian rule", then go with that.
 * "ethnically-cleansed": no hyphen
 * I got down to Aftermath. - Dank (push to talk) 01:15, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, Dank. I've addressed your comments with this edit. As for non-Jews being murdered en masse during the Holocaust, I completely agree that all the groups you've mentioned (especially Romanis, Poles, Russians and Serbs) were targetted for extermination during The Holocaust. However, the situation in Albania was somewhat different. There weren't very many non-Albanians living in the country, and Jews were targetted (more so by the Germans than Italians) and about 600 were killed. Serbs in Albanian-occupied Kosovo were also targetted, but this seems to fit into World War II persecution of Serbs (see: Template talk:The Holocaust) rather than The Holocaust. As for homosexuals and Freemasons, I'll try to find some info on the treatment of these groups in Albania during the war. 23 editor (talk) 01:40, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The terminology per se isn't important to me, but I guess I do take the position that our articles shouldn't cover some victims and not others ... particularly in cases where there were a lot of others, and where specific groups were targeted. - Dank (push to talk) 02:01, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Comments by Peacemaker67 (send... over) 02:12, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi all, "The Holocaust", as distinct from "a holocaust" is discussed in some detail here. Simplistically, most scholars refer to The Holocaust to cover the systematic killing of Jewish people by the Nazis. Some scholars include the mass killing of Romani people and those with disabilities. Few include all the various groups that were killed by the Nazis and all their helpers (such as the Ustashas in the Independent State of Croatia, who were focussed on killing Serbs, but also killed Jews and others). is quite knowledgeable on this subject. Peacemaker67  (send... over) 02:12, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks for pinging Diannaa. - Dank (push to talk) 02:37, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I've read your comments at the Talk:The_Holocaust link ... if many or most scholars want to reserve "The Holocaust" for the Jewish victims, or any subset of victims, I have no problem with that. That's not what I remember from the Holocaust Museum, but maybe I'm remembering it wrong, and it's not hard to understand if that's the case ... I can certainly understand the desire to push back against decades of Holocaust denialism and attempts to "water down" the impact on Jews and on Jewish identity, and words can be very personal things ... I think all ethnic groups deserve a lot of deference in matters like these. My only request is that we not ignore other victims .. for instance, if it turns out there were a significant number of non-Jewish victims of the concentration camps who were deported from (in this case) Albania, then even if there's some good reason not to cover them in this article, there should at a minimum be some well-written article that does cover that story. - Dank (push to talk) 04:12, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

I appreciate the comments and will add what I can about non-Jewish persecution to improve the article. Closing. 23 editor (talk) 23:59, 23 October 2013 (UTC)