I cannot take the style of that article seriously. It seems to be about the magazine Signal, a Nazi magazine. E.g.:
> Signal was an insidious tool of Nazi ideology, meant to counteract an image of fanaticism and indiscriminate violence: by late autumn 1943, as many Jews as Signal readers had been murdered in Poland’s extermination camps.
There is absolutely no relation between the magazine and the Holocaust. The date is arbitrarily chosen. And reading literally, it says that millions of Signal readers had been murdered. It's writing at its worst.
For those of you who haven't opened the article yet, a question: can you guess which person is named first, in the article's opening sentence, two words in?
> Signal was an insidious tool of Nazi ideology, meant to counteract an image of fanaticism and indiscriminate violence: by late autumn 1943, as many Jews as Signal readers had been murdered in Poland’s extermination camps.
There is absolutely no relation between the magazine and the Holocaust. The date is arbitrarily chosen. And reading literally, it says that millions of Signal readers had been murdered. It's writing at its worst.
For those of you who haven't opened the article yet, a question: can you guess which person is named first, in the article's opening sentence, two words in?