WWII Nazi/American corp. collaboration

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Thu Dec 3 11:19:50 CST 1998



On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Doug Millison wrote:
> I guess I'm still wondering if the general outlines of IF Farben's
> activities and of the cartel with Royal Dutch Shell, Standard Oil of New
> Jersey, and Imperial Chemical (ICI) in England were known primarily in a
> limited, specialist realm, and if so can we credit Pynchon with bringing it
> to light for a broader public?

Not to put too find a point on it but Pynchon is not in a position to
bring something to a very broad public. He writes high-brow literary
novels. Now if it were Harold Robbins . . .

				P.





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