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The article is btw online at least temporarily here: [http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:V5mhkdC54KMJ:www.jasoncowley.net/essays/E20021001_Gr.html+jasoncowley.net/essays/E20021001_Gr.html&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=opera]! Pretty interesting, if anyone wants to add information to the wikipedia-article. --[[User:Weltweltwelt|Weltweltwelt]] 07:49, 24 April 2007 (UTC) |
The article is btw online at least temporarily here: [http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:V5mhkdC54KMJ:www.jasoncowley.net/essays/E20021001_Gr.html+jasoncowley.net/essays/E20021001_Gr.html&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=opera]! Pretty interesting, if anyone wants to add information to the wikipedia-article. --[[User:Weltweltwelt|Weltweltwelt]] 07:49, 24 April 2007 (UTC) |
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:Thanks for the reference. I was able to download it today. Fascinating.--[[User:Joel Mc|Joel Mc]] 09:05, 24 April 2007 (UTC) |
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An entry from Eduard Bloch appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 23 April, 2007. |  |
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)
- Thanks for the reference. I was able to download it today. Fascinating.--Joel Mc 09:05, 24 April 2007 (UTC)