The level of bad faith is eye-opening for Coffman. But it also says that he worked to “reduce the atrocities committed,” going so far as to give his bloodthirsty superiors inflated death totals. The article acknowledges both of these facts, along with the detail that Nebe tested his system on the mentally ill. Apart from his role in the plot, Nebe’s main claim to notability is that he came up with the idea of turning vans into mobile gas chambers by piping in exhaust fumes. And to her it seems strangely flattering.Ĭoffman navigates over to the Wikipedia article about one of the conspirators-Arthur Nebe, a high-ranking member of the SS. It says that some of the conspirators came to see the plot as “a grand, if futile gesture” that would save “the honour of themselves, their families, the army and Germany.” The claim isn’t supported by any sources.
In early November 2015, you will find K.e.coffman in “20 July plot,” an article about the failed plan by German officers to assassinate Hitler. Wasn’t there consensus on, you know, Hitler? What was going on here? Wikipedia was supposed to be all about consensus. There were hundreds of them, and the men’s impressive kill counts and youthful derring-do always seemed to exist outside the genocidal Nazi cause. Or maybe it was when she clicked through some of the pages about German tank gunners, flying aces, and medal winners.
Maybe it was when she read the article about the SS, the Nazi Party’s paramilitary, which included images that felt to her like glamour shots-action-man officers admiring maps, going on parade, all sorts of “very visually disturbing” stuff. As she link-hopped through articles about the Second World War, one of her favorite subjects, she saw what seemed like a concerted effort to look the other way about Germany’s wartime atrocities.Ĭoffman can’t recall exactly when her concern set in. But Coffman, who was born in Soviet-era Russia and lives in Silicon Valley, is an intensely observant traveler. She didn’t know there was a Nazi problem. She came to learn the tango, admire the architecture, sip maté.
When Ksenia Coffman started editing Wikipedia, she was like a tourist in Buenos Aires in the 1950s. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
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