Nazi Chic

[Bernier, Jeannie]

Reminds me of one of the lines from "Mephisto:" 

"I hear the leather trenchcoat is all the rage in Berlin this season."



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	calbert at pop.tiac.net [SMTP:calbert at pop.tiac.net]
> Sent:	Friday, June 11, 1999 7:38 AM
> To:	Tom Hickey
> Cc:	pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject:	Re: Nazi Chic
> 
> 
> > He probably was.  Fashion and Fascism overlap neatly.
> > 
> > > I just read that Erwin Rommel was voted as one of the best-dressed men
> of
> > > the century in British GQ--and a few heads rolled as a consequence.
> > > sheez...
> 
> I'm not so sure Erwin bought into that crap. Struck me as being sorta 
> out of the Junkers class, many of whom served the interests of their 
> country, while despising Hitler and his political philosophies. Many 
> were involved in the July 1944 plot along with Stauffenberg, and paid 
> dearly.
> 
> But he did cut quite a figure.
> 
> love,
> cfa