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A French Jewish politician and human rights campaigner murdered in 1944. Through 2020 the opening said that “as a Jew and a Dreyfusard, Basch was subjected to persecution at the hands of the fanatical anti-Semitic populace,” and that he was later assassinated by members of the antisemitic Vichy French Milice. Today the opening ends with his human-rights and anti-Nazi work, mentioning neither the persecution nor his 1944 assassination, though the word survives twice in the body. A reader arriving now learns he opposed Nazism and not that he was murdered by an antisemitic Vichy militia.

The word “antisemitism” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 2. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • The description of Basch’s persecution by an antisemitic populace, dropped from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

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2010 (revision 370474356):

Basch Viktor Vilém , or Victor-Guillaume Basch (August 18, 1863/1865, Budapest - January 10, 1944) was a French politician and professor of germanistics and philosophy at the Sorbonne descending vom Hungary. He was engaged in the Zionist Movement , in the Ligue des droits de l’homme (president from 1926 to 1944) and in the Anti-nazism . His father was the journalist and political activist, Raphael Basch . Born in Budapest in 1863, Victor Basch emigrated with his family to France as a child. Basch later studied at the Sorbonne . In 1885 he was appointed professor at the University of Nancy , and in 1887 at the University of Rennes , where he became friends with Jean Jaures . During the Dreyfu…

2025 (revision 1293776672):

French politician Victor Basch (1926). Basch Viktor Vilém , or Victor-Guillaume Basch (18 August 1863/1865, Budapest – 10 January 1944) was a French Jewish politician and professor of germanistics and philosophy at the Sorbonne descending from Hungary. He was engaged in the Zionist movement , in the Ligue des droits de l’homme (president from 1926 to 1944) and in Anti-Nazism .

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