François Genoud: what Wikipedia removed
François Genoud was a Swiss financier of the Nazi diaspora who also supported Middle Eastern militant groups after World War II. The October 6, 2023 opening named his friends including “terrorist Carlos the Jackal.” Today’s opening calls the same man “militant Carlos the Jackal,” and the word terror survives 3 times elsewhere in the article. A reader arriving at the opening today learns Carlos the Jackal was Genoud’s friend, and not that Wikipedia’s own opening once called him a terrorist rather than a militant.
The word “terror” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 6 October 2023. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 3. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.
The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot
Section titled “The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot”| word | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | 6 October 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| terror | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| militant | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.
What was taken out
Section titled “What was taken out”The changes on this article are at the word level rather than whole passages; the table above shows the counts moving.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 367244275):
François Genoud (1915 – May 30, 1996) was a noted Swiss financier, benefactor of the Nazi diaspora and supporter of Middle Eastern militant groups.
2025 (revision 1297703579):
Swiss Nazi collaborator (1915 – 1996) François Genoud (26 October 1915 – 30 May 1996) was a noted Swiss financier and a principal benefactor of the Nazi diaspora through the ODESSA escape network and supporter of Middle Eastern militant groups during the post- World War II 20th century. In 1992, Genoud told a London newspaper “My views have not changed since I was a young man. Hitler was a great leader, and if he had won the war, the world would be a better place today.” His friends included militant Carlos the Jackal , one-time Gestapo agent and Interpol head Paul Dickopf , SS general Karl Wolff , Nazi Economy Minister Hjalmar Schacht , the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini and …
Related
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- The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
- Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
- The live article on Wikipedia
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