Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Survivors of Mauthausen concentration camp

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[edit] Survivors of Mauthausen concentration camp

Reason

Sharp, detailed, encyclopedic. Horrific but necessary

Proposed caption

Prisoners interned by the Nazis in Mauthausen concentration camp are liberated by the United states army. The prisoners are malnouruished, incredibly pale and show signs of abuse and mistreatment.

Articles this image appears in

The holocaust

Creator

Samuelson, Lt. A. E.

• Support as nominator Hadseys 10:07, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support --vineeth 12:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support--Mbz1 12:58, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Mbz1
• Support. But lose the scare quote's in the description. The holocaust was an atrocity on an unforgivable scale, but the experiment's were scientific in nature (also please read Apostrophe#Greengrocers.27_apostrophes -_-)--froth^t 17:07, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
  • I'm not sure what scientific experiment you're talking about? What kind of science this is, when so called "scientist" experiment with human beings? Is putting peole in a gas chamber a science? Is forcing kids to work without even giving them food a science? --Mbz1 18:03, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Mbz1
    • Testing the lethality of different chemicals on humans is in fact science. Truly horrible, but science none the less. It is not our job to judge people, Nazi's, saints, murderers. We report verifiable facts and that the Nazi's used victims of the Holocaust for scientific experiments is a verifiable fact. -Fcb981^{(talk:contribs)} 22:14, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
    • What's the big deal? Just because it's horribly wrong and disgusting and perverted doesn't mean it's not scientific. It is. They did plenty of experiments- we even have an article on it --froth^t 02:18, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
      • Why are you guys even talking about whether the Holocaust was scientific or not?!? Why was it even brought up? Am I missing something? Jumping cheese 04:32, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
        • apparently. It was over the scare quotes around "scientific" --froth^t 20:47, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Quote should be changed to '...reputedly used for scientific experiments on the prisoners.' Agree? Puddyglum 18:31, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
    • I'd say: '...reputedly used for "scientific" experiments on the prisoners.' --Mbz1 18:56, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Mbz1
      • Although the camp itself was used for medical experimentation, there is no evidence to indicate that these prisoners were experimented on. Of course it may have been an experiment as to how long the human spirit can endure before giving into despair :-(. But these prisoners illustrate that the human spirit can endure, and triumph --Hadseys 19:40, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support - Moving and historical, reasonable quality and good resoloution - Childzy ¤ Talk 12:31, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support: Great quality and immense historical value. --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 21:38, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support - Important historical image. Supaluminal 04:24, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
• Support It was extremely difficult to bring myself to look at the pic. Very horrific, and yes, very encyclopedic. And I know I said this like twenty times before in other nominations, but I've seen this pic in lots of history textbooks. Very high quality and historic. Jumping cheese 04:35, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
• Support Agree with above, but I think the caption should mention the date the camp was liberated and/or when the photo was taken, a fact that should be clearly documented somewhere in army records. Might be nice to have a little more backstory of this particular concentration camp, if possible, some extra bit to make it more than just another holocaust photo. Jeff Dahl 16:39, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Ebensee concentration camp prisoners 1945.jpg MER-C 03:58, 3 October 2007 (UTC)