GRGR(5) Katje and the Nazis

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy.

Re the following exchange  --  it is *because* the Oven figures in
Hansel & Gretel that it was employed by TRP to unabiguously engage the
Holocaust into the dream-life/sex-life of his one genuinely,
unambiguously evil Nazi character, even though this particular Nazi
doesn't spend his days tipping tins of gas pellets into a "Shower". 

Please.

No offence intended Kai,
Mark

--- Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

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