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A fact from Martin Hellinger appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 December 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the Nazi dentist Martin Hellinger(pictured), convicted of removing dental gold from victims at Ravensbrück, was released in 1955 and given a special grant to reopen his dental practice?
If he's still alive, he would be 114, which would make him the oldest man in Germany. If he lived out his days in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, death records should be easy enough to find, unless he disappeared. 72.202.208.72 (talk) 14:40, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
He's deemed alive by our policies but please clarify the position if you can. Philafrenzy (talk) 16:28, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
To clarify for 72.202.208.72 — because I really had to dig to find it — Wikipedia policy is to assume a person is alive for 115 years if there's no confirmation of death. (Unless they've been reliably reported alive within the past two years.) So give it another year. --Lkseitz (talk) 17:50, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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