GRGR(5): note on Katje

[David Morris]

Mark Wright AIA:
>Howdy

Nicole wrote:
>> I think Katje has been judged overly harshly on the whole. Why
>> would
>> she have risked her life joining the Resistance in the first place
>> if not for some idealistic motive?
>>
rj wrote:
>>> But the bottom line as far as I'm concerned is that she, personally,
>>> in the 'real' life of the historical narrative, consigns "three
>>> crypto-Jewish" families to the concentration camps in the full
>>> knowledge

>Peit, Wim and the rest of Katje's resistance cell are aware
>of and complicit in the 'three Jewish families sent east' to
>establish Katje's credibility with the SS; she didn't have to
>hunt them up herself.  It is Weissman/Blicero who thinks Katje
>has 'smelled them out'.  That she fails to call the bombers
>down on Blicero himself may be ascribed to her fear for her
>own personal safety and is understood even by her masters in
>the British SOE, else Pirate needn't have made the effort to
>bring her out.  I think it is a misunderstanding of the nature
>of reality to think that anyone could join the anti-Nazi resistance
>out of concern for personal safety.  Katje could have gotten along
>quite well on her own, anywhere.

Mark beats me to punching that nail, again.  Just what I've been thinking.
Except...

Except, she may not have called the bombers down for other reasons.  She is
noted for buying into the "Game" to some degree.  She always remains
inscrutable, and in some ways autonomous.  In some ways, I think she is
another personification of "V."  She exists on another level of "reality"
and functions as some sort of "spiritual" agent.  What exactly are the terms
of that existence?  Where did she come from before we meet her (other than
as a descendant of Franz, 'cause, let's face it, we ALL are to some degree)?