Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/German collective guilt
I was expecting an article on Karl Jaspers's ideas on the culpability of the German citizenry for Nazi atrocities, but this is a non-neutral essay arguing for one extreme of that debate, and does so by |synthesizing descriptions of those atrocities, together with election results and unbalanced arguments on internal resistance. Although some scholarly sources are quoted (e.g. the work on the letters of soldiers), these are not works on the "collective guilt" idea and so using them to supportthe article's position is original research. As the article is virtually all presentation of historical narrative, with no basis in discussion of the theme in proper secondary sources, I can't see what would be salvageable for a proper article on the topic. In contrast, the http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollektivschuld de-wiki article on "collective guilt" discusses scholarly work on the concept more generally, with the bulk of the article relating to the Third Reich, around which most of that work centres
— User:Thomjakobsen, 20:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:SYN (Wikipedia:No original research)