GRGR(5) Katje and the Nazis

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Doug schrieb:
> I could have also brought into my
> post of yesterday the major role that the Oven plays in this episode
> featuring Katje, Blicero, Gottfried -- is it really necessary to point out
> what an obvious reference this Oven is to Nazi atrocities, in a novel which
> takes as its setting WWII and which specifically focuses on the Nazis?

Yes, it is (- or better: would be) necessary, because in the fairy tale of 
Haensel & Gretel, which obviously is the primary reference of this episode, the 
Oven plays the same major role. I tried to hint at this. 

> Maybe a younger generation of GR readers hasn't had the documentary
> film images of the Holocaust burned into their brains the way an older
> generation did, just after WWII when the Nazis were brought to trial, and
> again on U.S. TV throughout the 50s and 60s for the Baby Boomers? 

No. Rather the other way round.

> But, whatever the reasons, I just don't get it.
 
It seems so.

                             No offense intended, Kai