Talk:Arthur Seyss-Inquart

message: I was reading up on Seyss-Inquart and I have a vague memory of 
a tale that when he was the Fuehrer's stooge in the Netherlands,
the Dutch liked to scrawl graffiti in the form of a "6 & 1/4"
crossed out -- since "6 & 1/4" was what his name more or
less sounded like phonetically in Dutch.  I can't give any
precise details of the story, but if anyone knows the details
it might be an amusing note to add to this article.  MrG 4.228.21.249 23:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The place I've heard of 6 1/4 was in the book A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan.  Allied troops happen upon the graffiti and the author gives pretty much the exact same explanation as is given above.  I don't really see how it would be notable enough for the article, but if someone wants it I can dig out the book and provide the exact reference. Sperril (talk) 03:09, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  6 & 1/4 

message: Seyss-Inquart fits the definition of a traitor as one who, despite nominal responsibility to serve his country, betrays it by transforming it into a puppet state or by incorporating it into a tyrannical system. 
In The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (book), William Shirer calls him the "Vienna Quisling".
:Not sure this really makes sense as Seyss-Inquart served largely in the Netherlands, not Austria.Historian932 (talk) 14:15, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's also nonsense. Seyss-Inquart wanted reunification with Germany. Essentially adding one part of Germany to another part. Now that's hardly treason. Those that did the Allies bidding could however be seen as traitors. But please, come up with a well formulated charge. 105.12.7.218 (talk) 13:30, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Traitor to Austria 

message: "During the early years of the Weimar Republic, he was close to the Vaterländische Front."
That phrasing does not make sense. The Weimar Republic was the german state at that time; Austria was not a part of it, but an independent state. Correct would be "During the early years of the First Republic,..."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.47.123.164 (talk) 15:34, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Weimar Republic" 

message: This page is a bit of a disgrace but I don't have the time to fix it all now.  By next week it will be a proper page with a lot of citations to scholarly books available through Google Books.
Rhetorical statement like "there is controversy over whether he was guilty of . . . waging wars of aggression," etc. etc. should not be allowed without citations to a scholarly source.  If you take a poll among Historians in Amsterdam or anywhere else I don't think you will find any lack of consensus on whether Seyss-Inquart is guilty of waging wars of aggression and there are plenty  of books and documents to back this up.
The same goes for the unsourced statement that he "allowed" the allies to drop food during the "hunger winter," as if it was some kind of act of kindness on his part.  In the first place, it is not the "so-called hunger winter."  In colloquial English, use of the phrase "so-called" means "it isn't true." It is a term of sarcastic derision. 
Second, the 'hunger winter" was caused by the Nazi's food blockades of Holland's populous Western cities in retaliation for resistance activities.
Third, the food drops were made possible after a temporary truce was negotiated with the allies for the express purpose of  dropping food. This is not the equivalent of the allies "being allowed" to drop food. The truce delayed the allied advance and gave the Germans time to escape with their equipment in an orderly fashion.  Essentially, tens of thousands of starving children and elderly men and women were used by the Nazi's to cover their retreat.   I'll source this on my next edit. 
Finally, I don't care if you want to say that Seyss-Inquart was very smart, or that he found G-d, or that he faced death bravely, or that he dressed up as st. Nicholas and passed out candy to Jewish children, as long as you support these statements with citations. Seyss-Inquart could be the most misunderstood man in history since Caligula but it shouldn't be in this article unless you can back up your claims with citations.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SMRTRNU (talk • contribs) 05:37, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It sounds like you have an ax to grind, the controversy over "waging wars of aggression" may be in reference to the fact that S-I didn't hold a command position in the government or military (he was an administrator), also "so-called" is not automatically derisive, it can be used when citing an unusually-named event (in English a "Hunger Winter" sounds very odd on its own).Historian932 (talk) 14:19, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced Apologist Rhetoric   

message: Could someone please explain the relevance of the third link in this list?
: Arthur Seyss-Inquart at the Internet Movie Database
When I tried it, the link takes one to a description of a Danish TV programme for children, ″Tjekpoint Teddy″ (2006– ) TV Series  -  25 min  -  Family —
Teckelberg7 (talk) 19:19, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: I actually think this is a quite well written article, but there are not enough citations to back up assertions made throughout. I see a tag was added in 2009 for improving the citations, i've readded a tag at the top.
If the supplied sources are the sources for large sections of this, it should be at least notated better. Junkshoe (talk) 18:02, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: There's no source on the claim that Seyss-Inquart became a Catholic before his execution, and I can't find it anywhere. Perhaps an editor is confusing him with Hans Frank? Would like to clarify before I remove. Thanks ModerateMike729 (talk) 17:32, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The German article cites this source:  Johannes Koll: Arthur Seyß-Inquart und die deutsche Besatzungspolitik in den Niederlanden (1940–1945). Böhlau, Wien 2015, S. 582. Google translate tells me that SI presented himself as a "repentant Catholic", though I'm not sure this supports the claim that he did convert to Catholicism before his death.Gemchadur (talk) 17:32, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conversion to Catholicism