Talk:Karl Plagge/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Zawed (talk · contribs) 09:07, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

I will review, comments to follow over next few days. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 09:07, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Lead

• No issues identified

Infobox

• As above

Early life

• "participated in the battles of the Somme, Verdun, and Flanders". Flanders is pipelinked to Battle of Passchendaele, is that how it is known in German sources?

In text, it states "Flanders". On Wikipedia, Battle of Flanders is a disambiguation page, but if the battles that Plagge participated in were listed in chronological order, it must have been Passchendaele.

• "treating Jews in the medical laboratory"; no antecedence for the medical laboratory?

Clarified

• "In 1934, Plagge began to work at Hessenwerks..."; the placement of this sentence suggests that this followed his dismissal from the Nazi educational institute. But that happened in 1935?

He worked part time at the Hessenwerks and part time for the Nazi institute until he was fired in 1935.

Service in Lithuania

• " and stopped to pay Nazi Party membership fees at the same time." Rephrase to "stopped paying Nazi Party..."

 Done

• "forced to work for the Wehrmacht."; better clarify what the Wehrmacht is as it is referred to again later. I wonder if the best way would be to clarify your explanation of the Heer to be the Army branch of the Wehrmacht?

Clarified as "German military"

• "many Jews were rounded up and shot in "Aktions"; is there a link for "Aktions", otherwise an explanation/translation of what is meant may be required

Linked to section in Glossary of Nazi Germany. It could also be taken out, because it's basically a euphemism for deportation and/or murder

• "Plagge argued with SS-Obersturmführer Rolf Neubauer"; this caught my eye due to the redlink to a Rolf Neugebauer in the next section. Are these the same individual, if so then there is a typo in the name? Also link the rank on first mention (it is linked in the next section)

Typo in source, but these appear to be the same individual, Rolf Neugebauer. Corrected accordingly.

• " they provided the Wehrmacht in its war effort.[17][16]"; reorder refs

Done

• "its extensive underground..."; I assume you mean underground as in subway, suggest linking for avoidance of doubt

Clarified underground movement, linked

• "SS NCO, Bruno Kittel"; link NCO

Done

• "were liberated by the Red Army on 13 July.[30][24][28]"; reorder refs

Done

Post-war

• "After leaving Vilnius, Plagge surrendered his unit to the United States Army without suffering a single casualty."; is there any information on his service from July 1944 to May 1945, particularly on how he got to serve in the West (and thus surrender to the US) rather than staying in the East?

Unfortunately, no.

• "told Maria Eichamueller about Plagge's actions."; who was this Maria? A social or refugee worker?

Unfortunately, this is not stated in any of the sources.

• "heart attack in Darmstadt in June 1957."; recite exact day of death, it is referred to in the infobox

Done

Assessment and legacy

• "a letter was discovered that Plagge had written in 1957 to a Jewish lawyer named Strauss."; is this the same lawyer he wrote to in 1956? If so, I can see how it helps his case but less so otherwise.

Yes, the year was a typo. Fixed.

• "Letters between Plagge and SS-Obersturmbanführer Goeke"; italicise rank, and who is this Goeke? I don't understand how this helps his case.

Clarified

References/Other stuff

• for the Good website, I suggest adding (2018) to better match Note 31.

Done

• Dupe link: denazification

Fixed

• No dablinks
• External links check out OK
• Image tags generally OK except for the one of Pearl Good where the authorship is not as explicit as the other images contributed by who I assume is Michael Good.

I hope the above points improve the article. It is great work overall and a very interesting article. I will check back in a few days to see how it is progressing. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 02:15, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Reviewing the changes to the article and the comments above, I am satisfied that this article meets the GA criteria. It is well written in neutral language, reliably sourced, and appropriately illustrated. Passing as GA now. Zawed (talk) 07:26, 21 January 2019 (UTC)