Template:Did you know nominations/Jews in the Polish Army

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 10:43, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Jews in the Polish Army

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... that about 200,000 Jews served in the Polish Army and related formations during World War II? Source: https://www.avotaynu.com/books/PolishOfficers.htm
- ALT1: ... that before World War II, Jews in the Polish Army formed about a fifth of the Polish military medical services? Source: https://bip.ipn.gov.pl/download/4/11804/Zalaczniknr2doSIWZMakieta.pdf (p. 104 of the pdf IIRC)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Qizil Tugh
- Comment: While one could argue that some details from the body might be more interesting, they might also make the hook less neutral. But see ALT1 if you want something weirder.

Created by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 535 past nominations.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:43, 23 November 2024 (UTC).

I always rub my hands when I see a nomination by Piotrus. This one, as expected, meets all the main requirements: new enough, long enough, cites sources, checks the neutrality box. ALT1 does not quite cut it, however; I do not see how people can form services. This should probably be amended in the article as well. I removed one extra "Polish" from ALT0, which I think is interesting enough. Surtsicna (talk) 23:16, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Surtsicna: Thank you :) I think served in this context is fine (people serve in the army...), but how about ALT1a below? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:53, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
...that approximately 200,000 Jews were part of the Polish Army and its affiliated formations during World War II?

Oh, "served" is fine. It is the ALT1's "formed a fifth of the medical services" that struck me as odd at first but now I get what is meant. Surtsicna (talk) 09:32, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Piotrus, is there no coverage at all about Jews in the modern Polish army? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:36, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

AirshipJungleman29, Nothing I could find, although there are some offline sources I didn't get. But I expect there would be next to nothing to say, as there are very few Jews in modern Poland. The latest I can find is the coverage of the Jewish purge in the 50s; since then - nothing. There is scope to expand it for a GA if anyone cares (more sources) but yeah, I'd add at least a sentence about modern era if I could bind anything, which I did not. There are presumably a few Jews in the modern Polish Army, but nobody cares one way or the other, I guess. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:10, 27 December 2024 (UTC)