Nazi Chic

[Lars Frehse]

--- "Bernier, Jeannie" <JBernier at DRAFTNET.com> schrieb:
> 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
> 
Well, of course Rommel was a Junker, but still he was wearing the
nazi-uniforms, which were designed to be especially impressive. At some
point in Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut it is mentioned, that Uniforms
are designed to make the wearer a frightening figure, no matter how
common he may appear in real life. The Nazis were good at that in
contrast to the american army, who´s uniforms in WW2 still let their
wearers look like misplaced civilians.

In a hurry,
Lars
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