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Extermination camp

• Extermination camp - have not exhaustively compared sources to article text it supposedly supports yet

1. War History Online - not a reliable source
2. Jewish Virtual Library is not reliable
3. "The camps designed specifically for the mass gassings of Jews were established in the months following the Wannsee Conference chaired by Reinhard Heydrich in January 1942 in which the principle was made clear that the Jews of Europe were to be exterminated. Responsibility for the logistics was to be handled by the programme administrator, Adolf Eichmann." is sourced to this copy of the Wannsee Protocols. Two issues - one - much of the article text is drawing conclusions/making statements that aren't supported by the Protocols text. Second - the protocols are a primary document.
4. this source is from a consulting firm and relies on three sources - a 1944 source, a 1963 source, and a 1985 source (they state this in the introduction). We should not be using these older sources ... given the opening of archives after the fall of the Soviet Union, generally all statistics from before then should not be relied on.
5. Jewish Virtual Library again
6. Conditions... deadlinks - and appears to be a professor's page?
7. "The mass killing facilities were developed at about the same time inside the Auschwitz II-Birkenau subcamp of a forced labour complex" is sourced to Grossman's original reporting on Treblinka/etc from 1946 and is a primary source.
8. "In most other camps prisoners were selected for slave labor first; they were kept alive on starvation rations and made available to work as required. Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Jasenovac were retrofitted with Zyklon-B gas chambers and crematoria buildings as the time went on, remaining operational until war's end in 1945." is sourced to "M. Lifshitz, "Zionism" (משה ליפשיץ, "ציונות") p. 304. Compare with H. Abraham, "History of Israel and the nations in the era of Holocaust and uprising (חדד אברהם, "תולדות ישראל והעמים בתקופת השואה והתקומה")"" which is unverifiable. see here where an IP introduced it. It does not exist on Operation Reinhart at that date so ... it's a lost cause ...
9. "Heinrich Himmler visited the outskirts of Minsk in 1941 to witness a mass shooting. He was told by the commanding officer there that the shootings were proving psychologically damaging to those being asked to pull the triggers. Thus Himmler knew another method of mass killing was required." and "The Nazis had first used gassing with carbon monoxide cylinders to murder 70,000 disabled people in Germany in what they called a 'euthanasia programme' to disguise that mass murder was taking place. Despite the lethal effects of carbon monoxide, this was seen as unsuitable for use in the East due to the cost of transporting the carbon monoxide in cylinders." are sourced to ""Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution" Yesterday television channel, 18:00, 18 November 2013" ntt verifiable
10. FOUR paragraphs on the killing process are sourced to Hoss' memoirs. Primary source, and it's quite well known that HOss' memoirs are very self-serving and need careful handling to use as historical sources
11. And much of the information on corpse disposal is also sourced to Hoss. Still a primary and problematic source

Collaboration in German-occupied Poland

• Collaboration in German-occupied Poland have not exhaustively compared sources to article text it supposedly supports yet

1. the citations in this article are a mess - it's often hard to tell what is what in the various citations
2. News Flashes from Czechoslovakia Under Nazi Domination is a primary source and shouldn't be used
3. School & Society is a primary source
4. Polish Review from 1943 is a primary source
5. Alex Ross, "The Hitler Vortex: How American racism influenced Nazi thought", The New Yorker - this is not a high quality source - this quote that its sourcing can be sourced from better sources
6. "'Orgy of Murder': The Poles Who 'Hunted' Jews and Turned Them Over to the Nazis". Haaretz. newspaper - needs a higher quality source
7. German Army Service (Volume 423 ed.). Hansard. 4 June 1946. p. cc307–8W. Retrieved 28 July 2011. primary source
8. Bogusław Kunach (2003-12-01). "Być tym, co słynie. Igo Sym" (in Polish). Gazeta Wyborcza. Archived from the original on March 6, 2012. Retrieved 2019-12-08. newspaper - the sourcing requirements want academic sources
9. Grzegorz Berendt (24 February 2017). ""The Polish People Weren't Tacit Collaborators with Nazi Extermination of Jews" (opinion)". Haaretz. newspaper
10. August Frank, "Memorandum, September 26, 1942: Utilization of property on the occasion of settlement and evacuation of Jews", in NO-724, Pros. Ex. 472, United States of America v. Oswald Pohl, et al. (Case no. 4, the "Pohl Trial"), V, pp. 965–67. primary source I believe
11. "Ukrainians guards took part in extermination". The Jerusalem Post. Associated Press. 2010-01-10. Retrieved 2019-06-21. newspaper
12. Ringelblum, Emmanuel (2015-11-06). Notes From The Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal Of Emmanuel Ringelblum. Pickle Partners Publishing. ISBN 9781786257161. Primary source - Ringelblum died in the ghetto so it's a primary source, not a secondary one
13. Bauman, Robert J. (2012-04-19). Extension of Life. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 9781469192451. Xlibris is a self publishing company - so this is SPS
14. Hannah Arendt (2006). Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. The Wannsee Conference, or Pontius Pilate. Penguin. ISBN 978-1101007167. Retrieved 16 June 2015. this is Arendt's reporting on Eichmann's testimony and thus is not a good secondary academic source
15. Collins, Jeanna R. "Am I a Murderer?: Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman (review)". Mandel Fellowship Book Reviews. Kellogg Community College. Retrieved 13 January 2008.- if this is a memoir of a Jewish policeman from a specific ghetto - we cannot use it to extrapolate to all ghetto policemen
16. Alexandra Garbarini, Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1938–1940, p. 198 lacks publication details

Treblinka extermination camp

• Treblinka extermination camp - have not exhaustively compared sources to article text it supposedly supports yet

1. Everything sourced to Arad 1987 should be updated to Arad 2018.
2. Sobibor: A Survivors Account" is a primary source
3. Court of Assizes (1965), Excerpts from Judgments (Urteilsbegründung), Düsseldorf: shamash.org - primary source
4. Grossman, Vasily (1946), The Treblinka Hell [Треблинский ад] (PDF), Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House - primary source
5. Rajzman, Samuel (1945), Uprising in Treblinka, American House Committee on Foreign Affairs (courtesy of holocaust-history.org), archived from the original on 3 June 2013 - primary source
6. Shirer, William L. (1981). The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-62420-2. - outdated and not by a historian - not a good fit for the sourcing reqs
7. United States Department of Justice (1994), From the Record of Interrogation of the Defendant Pavel Vladimirovich Leleko, Original: the Fourth Department of the SMERSH Directorate of Counterintelligence of the 2nd Belorussian Front, USSR (1978). Acquired by OSI in 1994: Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, p. Appendix 3: 144/179, archived from the original on 16 May 2010, retrieved 3 November 2013 - primary source
8. Wiernik, Jankiel (1945), "A year in Treblinka", Verbatim translation from Yiddish, American Representation of the General Jewish Workers' Union of Poland, Fourteen chapters; digitized by Zchor.org, retrieved 24 August 2013, The first ever published eye-witness report by an escaped prisoner of the camp. - primary source
9. Willenberg, Samuel (1989). Surviving Treblinka. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-16261-2. Google Books search inside. - primary source
10. Berenbaum, Michael. "Treblinka". Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. - could be better
11. Easton, Adam (4 August 2013), Treblinka survivor recalls suffering and resistance, BBC News, Treblinka, Poland - news source - not a good fit with the source reqs
12. "All three were equipped with gas chambers disguised as shower rooms, for the murder of entire transports of people. The method was established following a pilot project of mobile extermination conducted at Soldau and at Chełmno extermination camp that began operating in 1941 and used gas vans. Chełmno (German: Kulmhof) was a testing ground for the establishment of faster methods of murdering and incinerating bodies." is sourced to Golden, Juliet (January–February 2003). "Remembering Chelmno". Archaeology. Archaeological Institute of America. 56 (1): 50 which seems a bit of a strange fit - double check this supports all the info
13. "Trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem: Judgment Part 17". phdn.org. Retrieved 26 August 2020. - primary (and self-serving) source - needs historian's to interpret
14. Webb, Chris (4 September 2006). "Mapping Treblinka". Treblinka Camp History. Death Camps.org. Retrieved 12 August 2013. probably doesn't fit the sourcing reqs
15. "Adam Czerniakow and His Diary". Holocaust Research Project. Retrieved 17 April 2017. - primary source
16. Ministry of State Security of Ukraine (2 April 1948), Testimony of Aleksandr Yeger, The Nizkor Project, retrieved 22 August 2013, Excerpt from report of interrogation. - primary source
17. http://www.deathcamps.org/treblinka/perpetrators.html - does not meet sourcing standards
18. Comité International de Dachau (1978). Plate 282. p. 137. ISBN 3-87490-528-4. Directive sent to all concentration camp commanders from SS-Gruppenführer Richard Glücks in 1942. - primary source
19. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1946hoess.asp (Affidafit Hoess Nuremburg) - primary and self-serving source
20. In the Matter of the Extradition of John DEMJANJUK, A.K.A. John Ivan Demjanjuk, A.K.A. John Ivan Demyanyuk. 603 F. Supp. 1468. (United States District Court, N.D. Ohio, E.D. 1985). - primary source
21. "Survivor Calls Ivan 'Worst Devil of All Treblinka'". AP NEWS. Retrieved 10 November 2019. - newspaper
22. Langowski, Jürgen (2013). "Der Gerstein-Bericht" [Gerstein Report by Obersturmführer Kurt Gerstein]. Dokumente zum Nationalsozialismus (in German). NS-Archiv. Retrieved 26 December 2013. Original text of the Gerstein Report signed at Tübingen (Württemberg), Gartenstraße 24, den 4. Mai 1945. Gerstein betrayed the SS and sought to leak information about the Holocaust to the Allies. - primary source
23. "The Germans became aware of the political danger associated with the mass burial of corpses in April 1943, when they discovered the graves of Polish victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre carried out by the Soviets near Smolensk. The bodies of the 10,000 Polish officers executed by the NKVD were well preserved despite their long burial" - is sourced to an 1962 work - there is more to the story than just Katyn here.
24. "First Treblinka Trial". Excerpts From Judgments. Operation Reinhard: Treblinka Deportations. 1968. Retrieved 8 January 2014. Source: Donat, Alexander (1979), The Death Camp Treblinka: A Documentary, New York, pp. 296–316. Decision of the Düsseldorf County Court (AZ-LG Düsseldorf: II-931638, p. 49 ff.) in translation - primary source
25. Himmler, Heinrich (2014). ""Special treatment" (Sonderbehandlung)". Holocaust history.org. Archived from the original on 28 May 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2014. September 20th, 1939 telegram to Gestapo regional and subregional headquarters on the "basic principles of internal security during the war". - either this is Himmler's words and thus primary, or it's from a defunct website ...
26. I'm not sure http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/toc.html meets the sourcing reqs
27. https://www.inquisitr.com/301237/when-god-went-on-holiday-the-bbc-tells-the-story-of-treblinka/ doubt this meets the sourcing reqs
28. "Following his escape in the uprising, Sztajer survived for over a year in the forest before the liberation of Poland. Following the war, he migrated to Israel and then to Melbourne, Australia where later in life he constructed from memory a model of Treblinka which is currently displayed at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne." is sourced to https://jhc.org.au/a-labour-of-love-2/ which doesn't support the information
29. Claude Lanzmann (director, Shoah, New Yorker Films, 1985, DVD disc 3, ch. 1; Claude Lanzmann, Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust, New York: Pantheon Books, 1985, 95. - ... primary source
30. S.D. Stein, ed. (2 February 2000). "The Treblinka Extermination Camp". Source: German Crimes in Poland. Volume I. Published by the Central Commission for Investigation of German Crimes in Poland. Warsaw, 1946. HLSS Social Sciences. Archived from the original on 8 October 2006. Retrieved 29 July 2014. - primary source
31. Bet ha-mishpaṭ ha-meḥozi (Jerusalem) (1994). The trial of Adolf Eichmann: record of proceedings in the District Court of Jerusalem, Volume 5. p. 2158. ISBN 9789652790149. - primary source
32. Grzegorz Mazur (2013). "The ZWZ-AK Bureau of Information and Propaganda". Essays and Articles. Polish Home Army Ex-Servicemen Association, London Branch. Retrieved 1 December 2013. - unlikely to meet sourcing reqs
33. Kenneth McVay; Yad Vashem. "The "Final Solution"". Operation Reinhard: Extermination Camps of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. The Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 29 July 2014. The total number of victims killed in Treblinka was 850,000 (Yitzhak Arad, Treblinka, Hell and Revolt, Tel Aviv, 1983, pp 261–265.) - has been ruled unreliabe at the RS noticeboard
34. "About Simon Wiesenthal". Simon Wiesenthal Center. 2013. Section 11. Retrieved 17 November 2013. deadlinks
35. http://www.deathcamps.org/ is likely also not a reliable source
36. Various authors. "Excerpts from testimonies of Nazi SS-men at Treblinka: Stangl, Mentz, Franz & Matthes". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 1 November 2013. Source: Yitzhak Arad 1987; E. Klee, W. Dressen, V. Riess 1988 (The Good Old Days) - same as above

Operation Reinhard

• Operation Reinhard

1. Grossman's a primary source, needs replacing
2. We have much better options for the background than Sereny's The Healing Wound
3. Footnote 6 is cited as if the source is Kaye's Descrators of Memory but the actuall source is an article on Jewish Virtual Library that CITES Kaye. Violates WP:CITEWHEREYOUGOTIT as well as JVL being judged
4. I have concerns that http://www.deathcamps.org/reinhard/arccomment.html isn't a good fit with the sourcing restrictions
5. https://www.army.cz/images/id_7001_8000/7419/assassination-en.pdf likely also doesn't fit with the sourcing reqs - since there are a number of biographies of Heydrich, why don't we use those? And this source is cited to support "It is generally believed that Aktion Reinhardt, outlined at the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942, was named after Reinhard Heydrich, the coordinator of the so-called Final Solution of the Jewish Question, which entailed the extermination of the Jews living in the European countries occupied by Nazi Germany. Heydrich was attacked by British-trained Czechoslovakian agents on 27 May 1942 and died of his injuries eight days later." The only thing really supported is the last sentence.
6. https://web.archive.org/web/20100516184820/http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/10/10.F3d.338.85-3435.html is used to source "The killing centres had no electric fences, as the size of the prisoner Sonderkommandos (work units) remained relatively easy to control – unlike in camps such as Dachau and Auschwitz. To assist with the arriving transports only specialised squads were kept alive, removing and disposing of bodies, and sorting property and valuables from the dead victims. The Totenjuden forced to work inside death zones were kept in isolation from those who worked in the reception and sorting area. Periodically, those who worked in the death zones would be killed and replaced with new arrivals to remove any potential witnesses to the scale of the mass murder." but this is trial testimony, and thus a primary source - that's not our job as editors - we let the historians interpret the testimony and weigh the perpetrators words ... we report what the secondary sources report.
7. "Usually, the deception was absolute; in August 1942, people of the Warsaw Ghetto lined up for several days to be "deported" to obtain bread allocated for travel." is sourced to Edelman's account of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - which is a primary source and this is obviously drawing a conclusion ...whether it's Edelman or the editor who inserted it is unclear.
8. "Even though death in the cattle cars from suffocation and thirst was rampant, affecting up to 20 percent of trainloads, most victims were willing to believe that the German intentions were different" is sourced to Gerstein's report - another primary source
9. "The Jews most apprehensive of danger were brutally beaten to speed up the process." is sourced to Shirer (outdated and generally not considered by historians to be anything more than a popular history, and to Hoess' testimony which is a primary source
10. footnotes 48, 49, 50, and 51 are sourced to witness testimony on the HEART website - primary again
11. Why is "Although other methods of extermination, such as the cyanic poison Zyklon B, were already being used at other Nazi killing centres such as Auschwitz, the Aktion Reinhard camps used lethal exhaust gases from captured Soviet tank engines." sourced to a book on Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust?? And then it's obvious that it was searching for a particular phrase "captured-soviet tank engines holocaust" in the book - and it's citation is borked - the google books page says it's BLoomsbury Academic as the publisher so why is the wiki article listing Continum Publishing??
12. Public Record Office, Kew, England, HW 16/23, decode GPDD 355a distributed on January 15, 1943, radio telegrams nos 12 and 13/15, transmitted on January 11, 1943. is a primary source
13. "During the early phases of Operation Reinhard, victims were simply thrown into mass graves and covered with lime. From 1943, to hide the evidence of the crime, all bodies were burned in open air pits. Special Leichenkommando (corpse units) had to exhume bodies from the mass graves around these death camps for incineration. Reinhard still left a paper trail; in January 1943, Bletchley Park intercepted an SS telegram by SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle, Globočnik's deputy in Lublin, to SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann in Berlin. The decoded Enigma message contained statistics showing a total of 1,274,166 arrivals at the four Aktion Reinhard camps until the end of 1942 but the British code-breakers did not understand the meaning of the message, which amounted to material evidence of how many people the Germans had murdered" is sourced to the above primary source and https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nsarep.pdf which doesn't support the first part at all and the second only partially. Nor is this a good fit for the sourcing restrictions
14. https://web.archive.org/web/20130923030356/http://www.nizkor.org/faqs/reinhard/reinhard-faq-13.html is not the best fit for the sourcing restrictions
15. footnote 59 "Abstract: Peter Witte and Stephen Tyas, "A New Document on the Deportation and Murder of Jews during 'Einsatz Reinhardt' 1942." (Internet Archive) Holocaust and Genocide Studies 15:3 (2001) pp. 468–486." is https://academic.oup.com/hgs/article/15/3/468/660291
16. current ref 66 https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A592931 is in no way a reliable source
17. Wiernik, Jankiel (1945), "A year in Treblinka", Verbatim translation from Yiddish, American Representation of the General Jewish Workers' Union of Poland, retrieved 30 August 2015 – via Zchor.org, digitized into fourteen chapters, The first ever published eye-witness report by an escaped prisoner of the camp. is a primary source

Sonderkommando

• Sonderkommando

1. Shirer is not considered a good source for most Nazi history - he's writing for popular tastes and his work is not substantially updated since 1961
2. Greif's a collection of testimonies - unless we're citing an introduction here, which isn't clear
3. Nyiszli is a primary source
4. https://www.hagalil.com/shoah/holocaust/greif-0.htm .. no clue who/what this is and why it's reliable
5. http://www.memoro.org/it/testimone.php?ID=3406 is a videotape of a survivors testimony
6. http://mattrutta.blogspot.com/2006/03/yad-vashem.html is a blogspot
7. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-sonderkommando - Jewish Virtual Library is considered not reliable by
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