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Rumkowski

Mordechai Rumkowski Chaim Rumkowski

That last sentence needs to be helped. "aspects of the Holocaust"?

[edit] Cleanup needed

There are many judgemental statements: 'unsuccessful businessman', 'Nazi collaborator', 'dictatorial and ruling with an iron hand', "a man sick with megalomania", "King Chaim", "an old man of 70, extraordinarily ambitious and pretty nutty", 'an estimated number of 5,000 to 10,000 Jews gave him some credit for their survival', 'The Lodz ghetto was also the only ghetto not controlled by the SS'. All of this may be true (it is consistent with what I have read elsewhere) but citations are needed. I haven't peppered the article with CN tags as there would be too many. The numerous weasel-worded phrases in this article would best be addressed by citation.

'It remains unclear whether, if he had survived the war, Rumkowski would have received thanks for saving the people he did, or a jail-term for allowing so many to go to their deaths' is speculative.

I've stuck a cleanup tag on it, and may add anything I can find in the next few days. Squiddy | (squirt ink?) 21:15, 23 March 2007 (UTC)