GRGR Re: German sadism

[davemarc]

> At 3:48 PM +0200 4/11/00, Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
> >when you take a look at the
> >     labor market data, you'll see that there was probably less
structural
> >     discrimination against jews in germany than in the usa or in gb.
that's
> >     also true for academia.
> 
On the subject of academia, I observed in today's New York Times that David
Irving got a spanking from the British courts.  Irving strikes me as a
modern-day example of the kind of pseudo-scholars who advanced in Nazi
Germany over the exiled, imprisoned, and dead bodies of their colleagues.

Pynchon relevance attempt:  Some of Irving's research strongly influenced
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, one of numerous outstanding WWII
"revisionist" novels of the Sixties and Seventies.  GR can be considered as
belonging to that group.  Of course, there's a big difference between
Irving's brand of "revisionist history" and those "revisionist" novels.

d.