Talk:Polish prisoners of war in World War II

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A fact from Polish prisoners of war in World War II appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 January 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Polish prisoners of war in World War II were held not only by Nazi Germany but also by the Soviet Union?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 01:20, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Polish prisoners of war in World War II were held not only by the Nazi Germany but also by the Soviet Union? Source: Moore (2022)
- ALT1: ... that the most notorious and largest crime against the Polish prisoners of war in World War II was the Katyn massacre of thousands of Polish officers, carried out by the Soviet Union? Source: Moore (2002), p. 27, 44-46. From p. 27: "For many decades after the Second World War, discussion of Polish soldiers taken prisoner by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia was dominated by the debate over the responsibility for the deaths of some 15,000 Polish officers at Katyn and other locations inside the Soviet Union.’ Discovered in mass graves by the Germans in 1943, their murder at the hands of the NKVD became a cause célébre "
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Debris fallout
- Comment: ALT1 is arguably more interesting but similar to my recent DYK on Soviet atrocities committed against prisoners of war during World War II, so...

Oh yeah, 2nd QPQ review for the backlog: Template:Did you know nominations/Western Kentucky University swim team hazing scandal

5x expanded by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 539 past nominations.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:50, 19 December 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Article is long enough. Hook is interesting, but as the user said, ALT1 seems familiar to one of their previous hooks, so I steer towards ALT0. QPQ done. Ippantekina (talk) 02:47, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]