It crossed my mind that it might be coincidental, but as you say, the timing...

It was this article. The materials linked in it still exist in the Archives, at least. But the loss of the article makes it harder for people to find, and know, the story. I'm not clear why this piece is gone, when other articles in the Rediscovering Black History portal are still there, though.

More recently, Stephen B. Katz powerfully examined a World War II-era memo in which a Nazi clinically suggests improvements to the gassing vans used to exterminate Jews and others deemed undesirable. The document, which refers to the panicking victims as "merchandise," is stomach-turning.

Cicero warned that "the greater is [eloquence's] influence, the more necessary that it should be combined with probity and eminent judgment; for if we bestow the faculty of eloquence upon persons destitute of these virtues, we shall not make them orators, but give arms into the hands of madmen."