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"worldwide" versus "inside and outside of Germany"

To nip off an incipient edit war, I am opening this discussion. I hope the IP editor sees this since they can't be pinged but also inviting @Beyond My Ken: and @Smuckola:. I don't believe this needs any sort of formal process. In my reading, the "worldwide" version does read better but does not accurately reflect the sources given for the text. Do we really know what the historians in Burkina Faso or Sri Lanka think of Nazi historiography? I'm guessing no and further that no-one thinks it's necessary or productive to find out. The "inside and outside of Germany" version better reflects this and also emphasizes that it is not merely historians from Germany's former enemies that reject the myth. Please feel free to add any comments. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 15:59, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • "Worldwide" misses the point, which is not so much that historians all over the world reject the myth, but that it is rejected both by German and non-German historians. That's a much stronger point than is made by "worldwide", regardless of whether it reads better or not. Beyond My Ken (talk) 16:03, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]