Talk:Hans Schmidt (Waffen-SS)

This article was nominated for deletion on 15 August 2010 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

Reliable sources[edit]

Whoa I'm going to delete: "To investigate the " Holocaust " is a criminal action in Germany if you come up with results which deviate in any manner from the "official" version of what happened." I don't know the legal status of such "investigations" in Germany, but I'm certain it does not depend on the results. Cuvtixo (talk) 00:35, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

According to reliable sources Hans Schmidt and GANPAC promote: Antisemitism, Nazism, Holocaust Denial, and more and is not, as the article claims, "devoted to fighting perceived anti-German sentiment in the media". (→ Detlef Junker (ed.): The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990, Volume 2: 1968-1990, Publications of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D. C, Cambridge University Press 2004 ISBN 0521834201, p. 496 online. ajnem (talk) 15:23, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are to many errors in this article to give it any credability. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.118.120.250 (talk) 03:10, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it depends on the result. If your investigation result is something like "this did not happen or happend not in the previous described magnitude" then you are commiting holocaust denial in Germany. For instance: you aquire some historic documents that prove that the gas chambers were not for killing people and less then 6 million people got killed, then you are commiting holocaust denial and can go to jail because the holocaust happened and 6 million people got killed in gas chambers and burned in ovens by National Socialists (Nazis). Even writing this example can get me in trouble here in Germany. DerElektriker (talk) 08:15, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

npov tag[edit]

I don't know who tagged the neutrality of this article, but they haven't given their rationale on talk. Based on that, I'm removing the tag. If an editor wishes to reassert the claim, please give your objections here. Fell Gleaming ^talk 15:39, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please. The article was far from neutral when I got to it. The tag was justified. Viriditas (talk) 12:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Moved[edit]

I have moved the article to Hans Schmidt (Waffen-SS), the appropriate title of this subject. Schmidt's organization is not notable, and all the sources on this topic point to Schmidt not his org. Whether it qualifies for deletion is another matter. I'm just doing cleanup. Viriditas (talk) 11:03, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good work, thanks! Wish I had time to take care of it. Fell Gleaming ^talk 12:26, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article should IMO be deleted. Does anybody know what has become of GANPAC? My guess is that it has disappeared. ajnem (talk) 14:20, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

RfC[edit]

BAn RfC: Which descriptor, if any, can be added in front of Southern Poverty Law Center when referenced in other articles? has been posted at the Southern Poverty Law Center talk page. Your participation is welcomed. – MrX 16:46, 22 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Age at joining the Waffen-SS?[edit]

"Schmidt was born on April 24, 1927, [...] joined the Waffen SS at the age of 18, [...] participated in the Battle of the Bulge."

If he would have joined the Waffen-SS at the age of 18, then that would have been on or after the 24th of April, 1945, some two weeks before the end of the war in Europe. If the participated in the Battle of the Bulge (as member of the Waffen-SS), then he had to join it at age 17. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.68.232.253 (talk) 03:13, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That caught my eye as well because I remember an interview in which he commented on the irony that he couldn't gain admittance to screenings of Der Ewige Jude (because of the age restriction) even though he was in the SS. —Morning star (talk) 16:00, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]