At 03:54 AM 9/9/02 +0800, Hekga wrote:
On wiki [[Berlin]] page I added "text".
Vicki, you objected.
Around 1933, some 160,000 Jews were living in Berlin, a third of all
German Jews. They constituted four percent of the population. A third of
them were poor immigrants from Eastern Europe, who lived mainly in
Scheunenviertel near Alexanderplatz?. The Jews were persecuted from the
beginning of the Nazi regime. In March all Jewish doctors had to leave the
Charité hospital. "As apparent counter-measure a worldwide Jewish boycott
was called on March 24, 1933 with a Daily Express, London newspaper
article stating: Judea Declares War On Germany (complete text:[[2]]). The
many economic boycott actions were answered in the first week of April,
when Nazi officials ordered the German population not to buy at Jewish shops."
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[[2]] = Shofar Nizcor website.
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Vicki, would you object if I changed the last sentence to read:
"In the first week of April, Nazi officials ordered the German population
not to buy at Jewish shops".
instead of:
"The many economic boycott actions were answered in the first week of
April, when Nazi officials ordered the German population not to buy at
Jewish shops".
Yes, I would. It puts far too much emphasis on a newspaper article that (a)
almost certainly
had no effect on future events, (b) was not published in Berlin, and (c)
was not about Berlin.
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Vicki Rosenzweig
vr(a)redbird.org
http://www.redbird.org
Ms. Rosenzweig has captured some of my initial concern when
I read the proposed change as well.
The proposed sentence appears to me such that it would be an
excellent NPOV compliant factual summary of a paragraph, phase
or article regarding the rising tensions in the period if a list
of typical boycott actions or announcements (perhaps including
the specific article headline in question) were to precede it.
Particularly useful, in my view, would be whether other parties
were pursuing these economic actions as well. Did the German
government eventually respond to most or everyone or only
selectively: first to some of the Jewish activity, later to
other opposing interests as targets of opportunity.
Divide and conquer is an old strategy that the German
government seemed (to me) to abandon later in the War.
Were they employing it initially in the economic arena of
the pre War era?
Were others (besides some Jewish interests) likewise engaged
against German interests? Perhaps we can usefully expand
"The many economic boycott actions" in the article above
the proposed new sentence. This might help provide the reader
with sufficient information to ask themselves useful questions
for further reading or research.
Regards,
Mike Irwin