Talk:The Jews of Germany

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Beta Beta Beta (talk) 19:35, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

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• The Jews of Germany
• Marvin Lowenthal

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• ... that Marvin Lowenthal went from silk mill bobbin boy to writing a sixteen-century history about German Jews? Source: He was born on Oct. 6, 1890, at Bradford, Pa. At the age of 14 he sold a short story to Stage magazine. A year later he obtained a job as a bobbin-boy in a local silk mill, where he rose in six years to assistant superintendent. + To substantiate this claim, Marvin Lowenthal in "Jews of Germany," reviews sixteen centuries of German history and finds that, unless there is something uncannily new under, the sun, this thesis stands.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Q Manivannan
  • Comment: QPQ is a double nom.

Moved to mainspace by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 161 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 13:47, 7 July 2026 (UTC).

Both articles:

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Epicgenius (talk) 18:41, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Previous version of article re Rathenau

Immediately prior to my recent corrective edit, the article claimed or strongly implied that Walter Rathenau had carried out anti-Semitic forgery on the level of the Protocols. See below (emphasis added by me here):

Throughout the book, several root causes behind the contemporary rise of antisemitism are explored including: forgeries such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and those by Walther Rathenau [...]

This is of course ludicrous. Rathenau was NOT an author of anti-Semitic forgery and lies, but rather a subject and victim of them, to the extent that he was murdered by anti-Semites.

It's likely the wrong text there is a garbled or confused reference to the book's mention of him on page 321-322, which states that in 1909 he had said that 300 men controlled the economic destiny of Europe. Whatever the truth or falsehood of his claim, it was not a claim about Jews as such. But as the book goes on to recount, the Nazis later seized on this statement of his and changed it to falsely claim that Rathenau had specifically said that it was "three hundred Jewish bankers" and "three hundred sages of Zion". The main article about Rathenau says that his murderer even claimed that Rathenau had confessed to being one of the 300 "elders". In other words, again, Rathenau was the subject or victim of anti-Semitic forgery and lies, NOT an author of them. At most, something he said was later distorted into an anti-Semitic forgery. As such, my rather minimal edit changed the "and those by Walter Rathenau" to "and about Walter Rathenau".

Carney333 (talk) 20:53, 22 July 2026 (UTC)