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 | A fact from Eduard Bloch appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 April 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:
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Does anyone else feel uncomfortable saying Hitler "saved Bloch's life out of gratitude." Saving someone's life is a noble act, where as all Hitler did was exempt this man from his usual policy of murder. I would suggest something more like "[...] 1907 the doctor of the family of Adolf Hitler who later gave Bloch protected status our of gratitude.".
I have to admit my wording doesn't sound right and maybe I'm being too picky. Any suggestions?
- I wouldn't say uncomfortable, but I agree - the first paragraph does give an image of Hitler pulling Bloch from a burning barn or something! I think just changing "saved" to "spared" ought to do it. I also noticed that there is a contradiction between this article's date-of-birth for Bloch (1880), and the linked 1941 interview where he says "I am sixty-nine years old", putting his birth year in 1871 or 1872.
- well, first: about the date of birth i am not sure. I just copied it from the German wikipedia. There I also inquired if anybody had definite sources about his date of birth. All the other wikipedias also say 1880, probably copied from the German wikipedia. I would say somebody mistyped an 8 instead of 7, but that is just guessing.
- About the sentence, now that you ask I also see it does sound kind of strange. Maybe write: "This gained him special protection from Hitler when the Nazis occupied Austria" or something? "spared his life" also sounds a little to nice from my view although my mother tongue is not english, so I can not definitely say. --Weltweltwelt 18:56, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- PS: I just decided to change it by myself.--Weltweltwelt 19:04, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Found an article ("The Search for Dr Bloch" by Jason Cowley ISSN 0017-3231) which states his birth year as 1872. I'll correct this and related articles.
The article is btw online at least temporarily here: [1]! Pretty interesting, if anyone wants to add information to the wikipedia-article. --Weltweltwelt 07:49, 24 April 2007 (UTC) I saved the article on my harddrive. Give me a message if you need it!--Weltweltwelt 07:59, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reference. I was able to download it yesterday. Fascinating.--Joel Mc 09:47, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Hitlers Wien edit
This article states: "Historian Brigitte Hamann takes the opposite view, arguing that Hitler's antisemitism coalesced later, during the future dictator's years in Vienna." This is against the facts because one of the most important things in her book is that she proves by many examples that Hitler was still pro-Jewish during his period in Wien and must have become an antisemite after his period in Wien.82.169.234.28 (talk) 21:16, 9 January 2013 (UTC)