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[David &/or Jane]

rj:
>It is not Katje in life the reader is shown either,
>but Katje on film.

Oh, yes...

>To be beguiled like Gottfried, to fall for this cinematic
>simulacrum, to romanticise Katje in this way,

yes, Yes!

 is to deny her actual complicity in the
Holocaust, to deny the fact that individuals (citizens, operatives,
ordinary humans) like her willingly abetted the genocide of the Jews in
Nazi Europe, and, like she does and they did, it is an attempt to deny
- -- sublimate -- the Holocaust itself, imho.

Too late! I already came! Ahhhh!

Good post!  I needed that!
David