Friedrich Weißler: what Wikipedia removed
Friedrich Weißler was a German-Jewish lawyer who helped draft a 1936 church memorandum to Hitler before dying at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The 2010 opening described the memorandum as condemning anti-Semitism, concentration camps, the state terrorism. Today’s opening says only that he joined the Christian resistance against the Nazi regime, without naming what the memorandum condemned, though antisemitism survives 3 times elsewhere in the article. A reader today does not learn that the document he helped draft explicitly condemned antisemitism by name.
The word “antisemitism” appeared 3 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2010. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| antisemitism | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| terror | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| resistance | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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”- An earlier phrasing describing his membership in the Christian resistance against National Socialism, reworded into the current opening.
- The description of the memorandum as condemning antisemitism, concentration camps, and state terrorism, dropped from the opening.
How it opened then, and now
Section titled “How it opened then, and now”2010 (revision 344927699):
A memorial plate in Berlin Friedrich Weißler (born 28 April 1891 in Königshütte , Upper Silesia ; died 19 February 1937 at Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German lawyer. He belonged to the Christian resistance against the National Socialism . In March 1933 Weißler was dismissed as judge due to his opposition to the Nazis. He moved to Berlin and collaborated with the Protestant opposition ( Confessing Church ) within the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union . From November 1934 on he helped - as a legal advisor for the opposition - to cover the old-Prussian state bishop Ludwig Müller and his willing subordinates with a wave of litigations in the ordinary courts in order to re…
2025 (revision 1247062702):
German lawyer and judge Friedrich Weißler (Georg) Friedrich Weißler (born 28 April 1891 in Königshütte , Upper Silesia ; died 19 February 1937 at Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was a German lawyer and judge. Born into a Jewish family and baptized Protestant , he joined the Christian resistance against the Nazi regime after Nazi bullies had destroyed his judicial career. ^ “Memorial Speech: Friedrich Weissler (1891-1937) and the Confessing Church. Remembrance and Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Death of Friedrich Weissler. Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum, February 19, 2012 – Contemporary Church History Quarterly” .
Related
Section titled “Related”- The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
- 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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