Template:Did you know nominations/Myth of the clean Wehrmacht

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:27, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Myth of the clean Wehrmacht

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Neo-Nazis protest the Wehrmacht Exhibition.

... the myth of the clean Wehrmacht persisted in Germany until the 1990s when it was eroded by the Wehrmacht Exhibition (protesters pictured)? Source: Wette, Wolfram (2007). The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674025776. p. 269
- ALT1:... that ...? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)

Reviewed: This is a first-time nomination.

Improved to Good Article status by Jack90s15 (talk), Kudpung (talk) and K.e.coffman (talk). Nominated by Jack90s15 (talk) at 03:05, 21 August 2019 (UTC).

Comment: Wow. Tough choice between this hook (that it somehow went on that long... almost to the selfpitying movement about Dresden &c.) and how complicit the UK and US were, to facilitate having a West German force as a buffer against the USSR. Great article, although the last sentence of the lede (maybe more?) needs its grammar to be cleaned up a bit. — LlywelynII 19:36, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

I copyedited the tail end of the lead. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:13, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

The article has been fully copy-edited by WP:GOCE. --K.e.coffman (talk) 15:46, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

The article was promoted to GA status in time. I assume good faith on the references that I can't access. A QPQ is not needed and the image is fine. I don't see the use of shattered in the article, but I do see it in a non-cited image caption so that would need to be fixed. SL93 (talk) 17:47, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

@K.e.coffman:Jack90s15 (talk) 17:54, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

@SL93: what image ?Jack90s15 (talk) 17:59, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

The first image. It states, "Neo-Nazis protest the Wehrmacht Exhibition that shattered the myth for the German public in the 1990s." SL93 (talk) 18:03, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

@SL93: I added a citation for the image. --K.e.coffman (talk) 02:28, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, though now the wording is changed to eroded. So when this hook is promoted, I suggest tweaking the hook to "until the 1990s when it was eroded by the". SL93 (talk) 02:36, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

@SL93: doneJack90s15 Jack90s15 (talk) 17:16, 10 September 2019 (UTC)