Wikipedia's shiny-clean Austria

I have added a discussion note to the de.wikipedia.org page for Bregenz, Austria.

Since 1559, Bregrenz had been excused from housing Jews by an Imperial ruling.  A wealthy Pole built a chateau, but no Jews on the Bodensee?

But also no articles in de.wikipedia.org on any of the Nazis who administered the area known as Vorarlberg - of which Bregenz is Landeshauptstadt. Link 1. Link 2.  No Franz Hofer. No article on a Hans Dietrich, Kreisleiter.

Kreisleiter Hans Dietrich did not merit the shortest page of documentation.  Are there no historical documents.  Is this actually Bulgaria and not Österreich?

But there are documents. And there was a lack of effort to pursue Nazi collaborators in Austria even in the course of official denazification.

The URL of my discussion comment will fail if it is deleted by an editor, so I have kept a copy.

This is a regular problem in wikipedia where articles on cities are cherry-picked by city staffers and "patriots for tourism".

The big problem is the content from wikipedia articles is pulled into "information" pages by various web sites.  Think of it is "revisionism-by-neglect".

The article distinguishes between "sons and daughters" of the city and "Distinguished citizens" but does link to one Nazi and only one: Irmfried Eberl.  Yet the English Wikipedia article on Austrian denazification indicates that some 40% of KZ staff were Austrian as was the Nazi leader and some his worst henchmen. Yet only one from Bregenz - too notorious to ignore. But then by 1928 he was in Innsbruck, so you see, Bregenz is not implicated. Almost squeaky-clean. Could almost be Swiss.

One Hofer is mentioned; but not this one. See: die Gauleitung von Tirol-Vorarlberg

There were no Roma or Sinti in Bregenz. But it was the region's capital ...

The answer: from 1938 to 1945 Austria ceased to exist and in that Anschluss period, no history was made.  Nothing happended.  At least not in Bregenz.

see: Aktion T4.

"Arisierung","Entjudung" der Wirtschaft im Gau Tirol-Vorarlberg happened in the district, but the capital city of Vorarlberg was not involved. The last Jew left they don't remember when and the one Nazi got drawn into all that way off over there in Innsbruck.  Nothing but us Ehrenbürger here - and the Söhne und Töchter der Stadt  and among those few who were
Personen, die in Bregenz gelebt oder gewirkt haben - any Nazis either weren't there or went back to Germany after the war (and as we said, they weren't really there - they may have been in the district ...)

siehe: Rolf Steininger, Sabine Pitscheider (Hg.), "Tirol und Vorarlberg in der NS-Zeit", StudienVerlag 2002, S 319-340