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		The WikiChevrons
		Thank you for reducing "alternate history"! Your work is much appreciated. K.e.coffman (talk) 02:54, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

		The Good Article Barnstar
		For writing Prague uprising and bringing it to Good Article status. Congratulations on your first Good Article. Keep up the good work Catrìona! --White Shadows ^{Let’s Talk} 23:17, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Prague uprising

Thank you for quality articles such as Prague uprising, Ian Gleed, Michael Newton (Gaelic scholar) and Bratislava Working Group, for helping others with DYK, for questioning quality status, for adding "more indigenous artists for balance", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:52, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

		The Multiple Good Article Reviewer's Barnstar
		Hi Catrìona. We finally made it to the finish line. I wanted to thank you for the thorough review. I've learned a lot along the process and will be implementing some stuff from your review when I do mine. Here is a barnstar for your relentless work at GAN. You're an asset to this project and I hope we cross paths again! Cheers, MX (✉ • ✎) 13:35, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	Thanks so much for your edits on the Katharine Coman article. You have a real gift for streamlining text! AnaSoc (talk) 00:41, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

		Military history reviewers' award
		On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, you are hereby awarded the WikiStripes for reviewing a total of four Milhist articles at PR, GAN, ACR or FAC during the period July to September 2018. Thank you for supporting Wikipedia's quality content processes. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 01:06, 4 October 2018 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste `{{WPMILHIST Review alerts}}` to your user space

		The Germany Barnstar of National Merit
		As Coordinator of WikiProject Germany, it is my pleasure to award the Barnstar of Merit for the Federal Republic of Germany to Catrìona for her contributions to Wikipedia's coverage of the Holocaust. May we never forget. –♠Vami _IV†♠ 16:59, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your excellent work on articles relating to the the Holocaust! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 00:01, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Integrity
		You made a good faith effort to create a new article. When others questioned this you were open to their ideas and concerns to the point you were willing to withdraw your own work. I think diligent and gracious is an excellent summary of the way you handled this. Springee (talk) 01:45, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

		The WikiChevrons
		For your work on Working Group (resistance organization) you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 19:41, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

		The Epic Barnstar
		For your work on Working Group (resistance organization) you are hereby awarded The Epic Barnstar. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 19:41, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

		Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history)
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) for October to December 2018 reviews. MilHistBot (talk) 00:30, 8 January 2019 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste `{{WPMILHIST Review alerts}}` to your user space

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		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Milhist reviewing award (2 stripes) for participating in 4 reviews between October and December 2019. Peacemaker67 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:30, 11 January 2020 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste `{{WPMILHIST Review alerts}}` to your user space

		The Barnstar of David
		For all your excellent work on Holocaust-related articles. A difficult subject area to work in on Wikipedia, not just because of the actual subject matter, but the restrictions and sanctions in place. Thanks also for your other work, particularly in providing source reviews. Keep up the good work, it's appreciated! :D Harrias ^talk 11:39, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for the help! Deutschmark82 (talk) 23:46, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

		You are a Ray of Sunshine!
		It says here "The Ray of Sunshine is bestowed on that person who, when you see their name at the top of your watchlist, you know that all is right with the world and that you can relax. May be awarded to any person who consistently brightens your day." So here you go. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:08, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Keep up the great work!! † Encyclopædius 14:32, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	You are doing some wonderful stuff re content creation in Eastern Europe, and more so, you didn't ruffle any feathers (yet). This is amazing, and you very much need ye' old Barnstar for that. Keep up the good job! _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus\| reply here} 08:04, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

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Buidhe

Editor of the Week
for the week beginning May 24, 2020

Improved Wikipedia's coverage of the Holocaust in Poland and Czechia, and of Ireland. Brought a dozen articles to Good Article status (with one to Featured). Involved in reviewing activity at FAC and ACR.

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		The Reviewer Barnstar
		Dear Buidhe, Thank you for reviewing the article I created recently on John R. Buckmaster, and for taking the time to offer positive feedback; it is much appreciated. Thank you also for all your contributions to our encyclopedia, including all that you do in support of your fellow editors. With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk)^{(become old-fashioned!)} 09:46, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Considering your activity, your page should be sporting at least one barnstar all the time :) Keep up the good work! _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus\| reply here} 02:24, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	A sincere thank you for your work on Holocaust articles. TarkusAB^talk/contrib 21:05, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

	The Editor's Barnstar
	For your continued efforts at WP:FAC. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 23:41, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	For your long-standing dedication in writing quality World War II and history articles. Thank you for all your hard work! — The Most Comfortable Chair 11:03, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Did you know...[edit]

... that an illegal Jewish organization in an Axis puppet state proposed an ambitious scheme to bribe Heinrich Himmler into halting the systematic extermination of European Jews?
... that the Russian Liberation Army defected for the second time when it turned against Nazi Germany in the Prague uprising on 6 May 1945?
... that Robert Einstein, a cousin of Nobel Prize Laureate Albert Einstein, committed suicide less than a year after his family was murdered by German soldiers in World War II?
... that minoritized languages are languages targeted for extermination, even when spoken by a majority of the population?
... that Tosia Altman's blonde hair and fluency in Polish enabled her to pass as a gentile and travel between Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland to organize armed resistance to the Holocaust?
... that The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland was the first official document to inform the Western Allies about the Holocaust?
... that in most of the killings of the Bangladesh Drug War the victims were shot at night, and weapons and drugs were found near the bodies?

IranPride logo

... that despite homosexuality being punishable by death, Iranian LGBT activists celebrate IranPride Day (logo pictured) by secretly photographing themselves holding rainbow flags in Tehran?
... that Fredy Hirsch saved the lives of children at Auschwitz by impressing SS guards, even though he was Jewish and openly gay?
... that a Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp escaped disguised as an SS guard along with an SS-Rottenführer?
... that German soldiers and their Italian allies committed more than 5,000 war crimes in Italy during World War II?
... that despite the Democratic Republic of the Congo's $24 trillion in mineral reserves, more than 80% of its residents live in extreme poverty?

Two survivors of Nordhausen

... that Nordhausen concentration camp (survivors pictured), where more than a thousand corpses were found, was described as "the most horrifying example of Nazi terrorism imaginable"?
... that Adivasi-organized protests in Plachimada, Kerala succeeded in removing a Coca-Cola factory that was polluting the groundwater?
... that the Scottish Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean asked Douglas Young to destroy some of the poems in Dàin do Eimhir, now regarded as MacLean's masterpiece?
... that Wilma Mankiller faced sexism during her campaign for Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation, despite Cherokee society being traditionally matrilineal?

Artist's rendition of the Białystok children

... that children from the Białystok Ghetto (pictured) panicked when told to undress and shower upon arriving at the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt, because they knew about gas chambers?
... that East Sutherland Gaelic has just one remaining native speaker?
... that the leader of the Caiazzo massacre on 13 October 1943 eluded arrest for nearly 50 years because authorities were searching for him under the wrong name?
... that Don Raimondo Viale was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations for assisting Jews who had escaped from the Borgo San Dalmazzo concentration camp?
... that Pope Pius XII did not condemn the roundup and deportation of more than a thousand Jews "under his very windows" 75 years ago today?
... that the Padule di Fucecchio massacre, in which at least 174 Italian civilians were murdered, has been described as "one of the worst Nazi atrocities in Italy"?
... that Heinrich Himmler may have given permission for the Red Cross to visit the family camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, just a few hundred meters from the gas chambers?

Warsaw Ghetto boy

... that this photograph (pictured) was taken to glorify the SS men who suppressed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but helped convict them of murder?
... that most Germans who committed war crimes in Italy during World War II never faced justice?
... that because the court described him as a "simpleton", Stefan Baretzki's admission that he knew the Holocaust was a crime was used to convict other defendants at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials?
... that Maurice Rossel's report on Theresienstadt concentration camp has been described as emblematic of the failure of the Red Cross during the Holocaust?

Małka Zdrojewicz captured by SS soldiers

... that a famous photograph shows Małka Zdrojewicz (pictured), who smuggled weapons into the Warsaw Ghetto inside her boots?
... that despite opposition from within his resistance group, Andrej Steiner orchestrated the arrest of Jewish collaborator Karol Hochberg?
... that 694 Italians have been recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust in Italy?
... that Leo Holzer led a resistance group inside Theresienstadt concentration camp?
... that Slovak fascists and anti-fascists joined forces to intimidate returning Holocaust survivors, culminating in the Topoľčany pogrom?
... that Peter Bielik was nominated for director of the National Memory Institute, despite having blamed Jewish Holocaust survivors for the 1945 Topoľčany pogrom?
... that dozens of Nazi concentration camps were staffed by guards from the Luftwaffe?
... that the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS were thought to have committed war crimes against Italians during World War II in retaliation for Italy's surrender?

Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen photograph

... that a right-wing West German newspaper claimed that an iconic Holocaust photograph (pictured) depicting the murder of Jews in Ivanhorod, Ukraine, was a Communist forgery?
.. that Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS veterans formed a 40,000-strong secret army in West Germany in 1949?
... that Anton Schmid was one of only three German soldiers executed for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust?
... that Armin Frieder, the leading Neolog rabbi in Slovakia, was arrested for his participation in an illegal smuggling ring?
... that Karel František Koch was blamed by some Jews for the death of the chief rabbi of Slovakia, despite his having rescued Jews during the Holocaust?
... that Angus Barbieri fasted for more than a year, losing 276 pounds (125 kg) and setting a world record?
... that an antisemitic and antiziganistic statement had to be censored from a Slovak documentary about a post-Holocaust pogrom?
... that two Nazi propaganda films were made in Theresienstadt concentration camp?
... that President Donald Trump's comment that "it's a very scary time for young men in America" inspired a viral protest song?
... that Slovak paramilitary groups that collaborated with Nazi Germany participated in the two largest massacres in Slovakia during World War II?
... that along with murdering or deporting thousands of Jews and Romani people, Einsatzgruppe H targeted German soldiers suspected of defeatism and homosexuality?
... that the editors of the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos found that the Nazis and their allies had imprisoned and murdered people at 42,500 locations, far more than previously thought?
... that prior to a Red Cross inspection of Theresienstadt ghetto, a "beautification" program there included the transfer of 7,500 prisoners to Auschwitz?
... that the Slovak Jewish Center, set up by the Nazis, was taken over by a resistance group?
... that President Jozef Tiso argued in a 1942 speech that Slovakia's complicity in the Holocaust was consistent with Christian morality?
... that Jewish community leader Tibor Kováč negotiated with and bribed a former classmate who was organizing the deportation of Jews from Slovakia during the Holocaust?
... that the Irish Occupied Territories Bill would make doing business with Israeli settlers punishable by five years' imprisonment?
... that Scottish poet Sorley MacLean once called upon the Red Army to invade his homeland?
... that the Northern Ireland Assembly has not sat for more than two years, partly because of disagreements over an Irish Language Act?
... that Edite Estrela MEP received 80,000 emails in opposition to a nonbinding European Union resolution in favor of sex education and other reproductive rights?
... that Irish republican O'Donovan Rossa claimed that the phrase "England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity" was typically used as an excuse for inaction?
... that Unhappy the Land argues that the Irish are not the "most oppressed people ever"?

Zuzana Čaputová

... that the election of Zuzana Čaputová (pictured), the Progressive Slovakia candidate in the 2019 presidential race, was hailed by international media as a victory of liberalism over populism?
... that in a 1967 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the deportation of an alien for being homosexual?
... that the Land League's "rival government" surpassed the power of the British government in many parts of Ireland during the late 19th century?
... that concentration of land ownership has been linked to deforestation in 48 developing countries?
... that Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to Chief of the Armed Forces High Command because of his craven willingness to function as Adolf Hitler's mouthpiece?
... that the Famine Inquiry Commission has been criticized by scholars and Indian nationalists for exonerating the British government of responsibility for the 1943 Bengal famine?
... that the sermons of Greek Catholic priest Michal Mašlej inspired the villagers of Oľšavica to hide Jews during the Holocaust even though German soldiers were quartered in the village?
... that nearly half of paramilitary punishment attacks in Northern Ireland have occurred since the official end of the conflict?
... that the Slovak periodical Nástup blamed Jews for both communism and "immoral capitalism"?
... that Hugh Orde, the head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, has been criticized for using the phrase "acceptable level of violence"?
... that Gates of Tears is the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust in the Lublin District of Poland?
... that the Czech-language fascist newspaper Arijský boj ('Aryan Struggle') claimed that the daughter of a former president kept a lesbian harem and lusted after Jewish men?
... that in order to bypass political changes demanded by Germany at the 1940 Salzburg Conference, Slovakia adopted the Führer principle?
... that the Dęblin–Irena forced-labor camp was one of the last forced-labor camps for Jews in the Lublin District?
... that the International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine will investigate alleged war crimes by Israel, Hamas, and Palestinian armed groups?
... that many survivors of the Holocaust in the Sudetenland lost their Czechoslovak citizenship after the war because they were deemed to be "Germans"?
... that only a few hundred Jews survived out of the more than 57,000 who were deported from Slovakia in 1942?
... that five days after evacuating Blechhammer concentration camp in January 1945, German soldiers returned to murder prisoners who had been unable to leave?
... that the life expectancy at Gusen concentration camp was as short as six months?

Memorial to the victims of the camp

... that Leitmeritz concentration camp (memorial pictured) was not liberated, but dissolved by the German Instrument of Surrender?
... that according to The Independent, KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps "renders the unimaginable evil of the camps relatable"?
... that from 1938, the Slovak People's Party denounced Czechs as "enemies and pests" of the nation?
... that Irish republican activist Michael Davitt hated the British empire, but actually liked English people?
... that the systematic deportation of Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp began on 26 March 1942, with a transport of 997 women and girls from Poprad, Slovakia?
... that Operation Harvest Festival was the largest single massacre by German forces during the Holocaust?
... that Czechoslovak Communist politician Václav Kopecký "distinguished himself with antisemitic diatribes" and stage-managed an antisemitic show trial?
... that the CIA recruited Lithuanian Nazi collaborator Aleksandras Lileikis in 1952, even though he was suspected of complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust?
... that Slovak dissident Ján Mlynárik was hunted down by the Communist authorities for criticizing the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia?
... that the 1938 deportation of Jews from Slovakia was justified by blaming them for a recent territorial concession to Hungary?
... that the Slovak authorities suspended restitution to Holocaust survivors after the Partisan Congress riots, as many partisans were unhappy at returning property to its original Jewish owners?
... that the 1957–1958 influenza pandemic killed at least one million people worldwide?
... that the book The Pink Swastika has been described as a product of American culture wars?
... that in some situations, saying "please" may yield worse outcomes?
... that the Northern Ireland subsidy is greater than the United Kingdom's annual net expenditure on the European Union before Brexit?
... that the Slovak periodical Svedectvo (Testimony) receives a government subsidy, despite having published apologist articles defending convicted war criminals?
... that some countries charge visitors a departure tax?
... that many post-World War II anti-Jewish attacks in Slovakia were committed by former anti-Nazi partisans?

"Never again" memorial at Treblinka

... that U.S. presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Obama vowed "never again" (memorial pictured), but genocide took place during each of their presidencies?
... that the rough sex murder defense asserts that a victim died accidentally during consensual sex?
... that gays and lesbians began using the pink triangle in the 1970s to counter "the vicious, influential myth" of a connection between Nazism and homosexuality?
... that Jeffrey Herf found that East Germany delivered 750,000 Kalashnikov rifles to countries and militants as part of what he calls "undeclared wars with Israel"?
... that 414 Tank Battalion, a mixed Dutch-German military unit, has been described as a step towards a European army?
... that Hong Kong protestors have drawn analogies between Nazi Germany and China?
... that London subsidized the rest of the UK by £38.6 billion in the 2016–17 fiscal year?
... that American scholar of genocide Gregory Gordon believes that ordering war crimes or crimes against humanity should be criminalized, even if mass killing has not taken place?
... that the Welsh fiscal deficit was higher than Greece's throughout the Greek government-debt crisis?
... that during the Paris Peace Conference, Czechoslovak politicians claimed that their country was tolerant, even as anti-Jewish violence was ongoing?
... that some types of incitement to terrorism are constitutionally protected in the United States?
... that Susan Benesch, founder of the Dangerous Speech Project, advocates the use of "counterspeech" and humor against hate speech?
... that Ján Vojtaššák, deputy chairman of the Slovak parliament when it approved the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, is being considered for beatification?
... that in A World Without Jews, Alon Confino argues that "the messianic struggle to create a Nazi civilization depended on the extermination of the Jews"?
... that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" has been described as incitement to genocide?
... that Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East argues that Nazism and Islamism are similar, especially in their extreme antisemitism?
... that business leaders tried to ban the Depression anthem "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" for being "a dangerous attack on the American economic system"?
... that Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin claimed that he had prevented another Holocaust by bombing an Iraqi nuclear reactor?
... that in a January 1939 speech, Hitler predicted "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe"?
... that in a new book, Wolf Gruner argues that the collaborationist Czech government played a significant role in the persecution of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia?
... that the Russian vigilante group Occupy Pedophilia filmed more than a hundred anti-gay attacks between 2012 and 2014?
... that the myth of Czechoslovakia as "a welcoming and tolerant place for Jews" was exploited by Czechoslovak politicians?
... that after World War II, German industrialists who used forced labor claimed to be victims and opponents of Nazism?
... that Monika Rice's "What! Still Alive?!" has been described as a "disturbing narrative of violence, hostility, and indifference" towards Holocaust survivors in Poland?

Warsaw Equality Parade in 2018

... that Jarosław Kaczyński, an adviser to the prime minister of Poland, claimed that equality marches (example pictured) are "a real threat to ... the Polish state"?
... that a business-firm party is a political party created and run by one person to further their own interests?
... that a stab-in-the-back myth asserts that American media or civilians were responsible for the United States' failure in the Vietnam War?
... that the verse "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" was left out of the slave bible due to fears that it could incite rebellion?
... that death squad commander Otto Ohlendorf claimed that the extermination of 90,000 Jewish men, women, and children was a justified act of self-defense?
... that according to Nazi propaganda, the Jews started World War II?
... that the anti-gender movement claimed that the proposed 2016 Colombian peace agreement was "an instrument to impose gender ideology"?
... that a 2020 study found that African countries which allowed foreign funding of NGOs had a higher voter turnout?
... that the Polish activist Bartosz Staszewski created a series of photographs of LGBT people who live in "LGBT-free zones"?
... that the book Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism has been described as a "bleak account of the West's slide toward tyranny"?
... that The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus was described as a "giant step forward for the field of working class intellectual history"?
... that in September 2019, far-right politician Milan Mazurek became the first Slovak parliamentarian to lose his seat due to a crime after comparing Romani children to "animals in the zoo"?
... that according to the Hebrew Bible, a perjurer should receive the same punishment he sought to inflict on the falsely accused?
... that conventional religion is positively correlated with authoritarianism?
... that the European Commission of Human Rights found in 1969 that the Greek junta systematically tortured dissidents, leading to Greece's exit from the Council of Europe?
... that historian Jeffrey Kimball argued that the Vietnam War "was waged as much against Saigon as it was against the [Viet Cong / North Vietnamese] enemy"?
... that a historical theory argues that Nixon sought a decent interval between American withdrawal and South Vietnamese collapse to avoid becoming the first president to lose a war?
... that after the Greek Civil War, 20,000 leftists were exiled to the island of Gyaros, dubbed the "Dachau of the Mediterranean"?

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