Flogging a dead...
Poet of the Raritan
bard at eden.rutgers.edu
Tue Mar 14 08:13:53 CST 1995
Just to add to the body count, here's some minutia...
"They drank till they died, hundreds of souls. Enzian's mother was among
them. [...] Sixty percent of the Herero people had been exterminated." 321
At Peennemunde, a bunch of people died.
"bodies still being dug from the wreckage [...] Most of the casualties had
been among "foreign workers," a euphimism for civilian prisoners brought form
countries under German occupation. [...] "Dr. Thiel is Dead." (423)
These are both instances where the narrator seems pretty reliable.
Jason
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