Forum:Nuremberg Defendants MWIH

I had occasion to review MWiH for the article on Streicher (I noticed Rosenberg's name is tossed off, hence his newly created article), and I realized that while HT doesn't name every single defendant, he is rather more specific about who is on trial than not. He points out that there are nearly two dozen defendants (in OTL it was 22--Bormann was MIA [and his remains were found in the 1970s] and Ley had committed suicide in October, 1945), names several (Goring, Jodl, Keitel, Ribbentrop, Hess, Streicher, Roseberg), and given how that book went, it's probably safe to assume that the defendants HT gave us was the same as OTL.

So we have some untapped article potential here.

Now, in addition to the defendants HT actually named in MwIH, we have Karl Dönitz, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht. At one time, I did include Kaltenbrunner and Schact in MwIH, and included a quick paragraph with an asterisk. I removed those recently because of our somewhat stricter policies, but I am now rethinking that in light of the re-read.

Options that occur to me: 1. Create a general article for the Nuremberg trials, list the 24 defendants, create links to the historical figures we already have, then write the MwIH section explaining how things went in the book, WITHOUT creating new articles for individual defendants.

2. Go ahead and create new articles for every defendant (save Bormann and Ley) on the strength of the line about nearly two dozen defendants. We've had historical figures on slimmer reeds, plus each of those defendants, for good and for ill, were impacted by the actions of the GFF. Bormann and Ley, of course, were already dead, and nothing the GFF did changed that, so they don't need articles at this time. By my count that would generate 11 new historical figure articles, although they'd be fairly redundant.

3. Create the Nuremberg trials article AND the new articles for each defendant (again, excluding Bormann and Ley).

I also point out that we have some precedence for at least option two from the same book: I created articles for each of the 10 physicists from the same book, primarily because HT named like 7 out of the 10, so it made sense to just add the remaining three. TR 20:57, December 26, 2011 (UTC)