Template:Did you know nominations/Bratislava Working Group
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The result was: promoted by RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 18:34, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
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Bratislava Working Group
[edit]- ... that an illegal Jewish organization in an Axis puppet state proposed to ransom the lives of European Jews during the Holocaust with a $3 million bribe?
- Source : Tuvia Friling, Arrows in the Dark volume 1, page 214:
Rabbi Weissmandel and his colleagues in the Working Group were not aware of the strange coincidences that caused Wisliceny to reduce the pressure for a while. They tended to believe that their proposal to Wisliceny and the bribes paid to the local hierarchy were what prevented the continued deportations. Based on this assumption, Weissmandel hatched the idea of expanding the “small plan”—aimed only at saving the lives of Slovakia’s Jews—to halt deportations all over Europe by offering bribes and promising legal aid at the end of the war. ... Wisliceny presented the proposal to Eichmann in Berlin. The latter promised to relay it to Himmler. In November 1942 Wisliceny informed the Working Group that Himmler had agreed to the proposal and that he had been entrusted with the task of negotiating with representatives of Slovakian Jewry. He named his price: three million dollars in return for halting deportations from western, southern, and southeastern Europe to extermination camps in Poland.
- For the location of the Working Group in Axis-aligned Slovakia and its illegality, [1]
- ALT1:... that an illegal Jewish organization in an Axis puppet state proposed an ambitious scheme to bribe Heinrich Himmler into halting the systematic extermination of European Jews?
- Source : same as above
5x expanded by Catrìona (talk). Self-nominated at 22:27, 19 July 2018 (UTC).
New and evidently eligible, properly written (kudos on rendering the later controversy in very encyclopedic tone) and formatted, Earwig's suggests that copyvio is unlikely. Both hooks check out and are interesting; speaking for myself, I prefer the original by a slim margin. QPQ not done, but as far as I can ascertain, the nominator is not yet required to. No copyvio in images, though I must (rather quietly) object to the portrait photographs of Friling, Tiso, and even a very aged Ben-Gurion: they add nothing to the understanding of the text, are literally one-click away from the article, and don't help with the format; the reader would be much better informed by photographs that show places, groups, events etc. Dahn (talk) 04:40, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
