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George Mosse was a Jewish-American historian who fled Nazi Germany and became a leading scholar of Nazism. Through 2005 the opening said he ‘frequently wrote about Nazi Germany, Fascism, anti-Semitism, and Jewish history.’ Today the opening credits him only with ‘studies of Nazism’ and books on constitutional history, Protestant theology and masculinity, though antisemitism survives three times elsewhere in the body. A reader today learns the range of his other scholarship and not that antisemitism itself was a named subject of his work.

The word “antisemitism” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. 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

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What was taken out

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  • The sentence naming antisemitism as a subject of Mosse’s early scholarship is gone from the opening, though the word survives elsewhere in the body.

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 16383699):

George Lachmann Mosse ( September 20 , 1918 - January 22 , 1999 ) was a German-born American left-wing Jewish gay historian of fascism in general and Nazi Germany in particular who saw fascists as “scavengers” who took bits of other ideologies to create a new one. Mosse was born in Berlin into one of Germany’s richest Jewish families. The Mosse family owned a large chain of newspapers including several of the most prestigious papers in Germany, most notably the Berliner Tagesblatt. Mosse was educated at an exclusive boys’ school run by former Army officers, where, as a frail youth, he had difficulty with the demanding physical education regime imposed on the pupils. In 1933 , the Mosse famil…

2025 (revision 1296842943):

American historian (1918–1999) Gerhard “George” Lachmann Mosse (September 20, 1918 – January 22, 1999) was a German-born, Jewish-American social and cultural historian, who emigrated from Nazi Germany to Great Britain and then to the United States. He was professor of history at the University of Iowa , the University of Wisconsin–Madison , and also in Israel , at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . Best known for his studies of Nazism , he authored more than 25 books on topics as diverse as constitutional history , Protestant theology , and the history of masculinity . In 1966, he and Walter Laqueur founded The Journal of Contemporary History , which they co-edited. ^ Eric Pace, obituary .…

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