Talk:Matthias Erzberger

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Engagement for the Armenian cause[edit]

It should be mentioned in the article, that Erzberger was, together with Karl Liebknecht, the only German member of Reichstag who publicly criticized the policy of the Turkish allies towards ethnic and religious minorities, notably the Armenians. As Pastor Lepsius, he personally travelled to Constantinople to negotiate (in vain) with the Turkish leadership.

--Ischtiraki (talk) 12:50, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Added some refs[edit]

...but there are still sections without (or with too few) inline citations. I will leave the tag for now. Drow69 (talk) 13:01, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I left in the Tuchman ref regarding the Septemberprogramm, but changed the wording. Could someone check what she actually said in the book? It appears to be a misunderstanding between Erzberger's Denkschrift and the Septemberprogramm. His publication was not a government position paper or anything of the kind. It was an expression of his personal views.Drow69 (talk) 14:35, 25 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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for that act he was assassinated[edit]

That sounds too much like he was killed on grounds of a regular (state) juridical decision (death sentence for a certain deed). Sure Erzberger was most hated by the right and extreme right wing for signing in Versailles, 1919. But not only for that. --2001:A61:2B86:9801:183A:FF33:7861:4676 (talk) 17:32, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Paragraphs flagged as confusing[edit]

I attempted to clean up the confusion in the second half of the World War I section by reordering some of it to be in a more chronological sequence and by adding translated material from the German language version of the article where it filled in some of the gaps. I also added material from the German version about Erzberger and the Armenian Genocide. I deleted those parts of the English version for which I could find no reference in any available source applicable to the context (if I could even figure out what the context was…). These include most of the two paragraphs beginning with "However, General Wilhelm Groener..": • Restructuring the War Office • Groener's dismissal • Shift in foreign policy • Coalition of 9 July • Threat of a socialist revolution • Ludendorff not supporting the war minister — Preceding unsigned comment added by GHStPaulMN (talk • contribs)GHStPaulMN (talk) 11:27, 2 May 2022 (UTC) [reply]