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December 2023

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that in this edit to Hajo Meyer, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 01:31, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

I posted a message on the talk page two weeks ago. I provided a detailed explanation of what I thought had to be done. Nobody responded. I did exactly what I announced. I guess I should have referred to that talk page. Please let me know how I can fix the error on my part, namely not including that reference in the explanation of what I did, so that what I did and you undid can be restored. Nighster (talk) 02:17, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

Hajo Meyer book

Hi there, I have recently rewritten part of the article about Hajo Meyer, especially the section about the book. I hope it sticks. I'm tempted to also tackle the rest of the article, but I don't want to jinx it. Since you put so much work in it yourself, would you mind giving it a look? I'm curious to know what you think. Judithcomm (talk) 07:38, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you,Judithcomm (talk) I think that this is a great improvement. I also agree that more needs to be done. After my failed attempts, I realized that steps smaller than I had tried have a better chance of sticking. I hadn't forgotten about this issue, but just didn't know where to begin. Nighster (talk) 01:51, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

There is also a lot more that can be said about the book. Meyers theory of "sequential traumatizing" for one, which I personally find less interesting, like what he writes about Faust and Mephistopheles. What I would like to add is that he felt more traumatised by his experiences in Germany and Holland than by Auschwitz. The horror of the final solution makes everywone underestimate the consequences of what went on before that, he says. Of course that would not land well. And his ideas about second generation Holocaust victims: That they may be more effected by it, because contrary to their parents, they did not have a (relatively) normal childhood.--Judithcomm (talk) 10:03, 22 June 2024 (UTC)