Somewhat NP Argentinians bound for Germany

[Doug Millison]

At 8:23 AM +1000 8/5/00, jbor wrote:
>some mythical "ratline"

See Martin A. Lee's _The Beast Reawakens_ for a good, contemporary 
investigation of the international neo-Nazi movement and its debt to 
the very real ratline that rescued Nazis after WWII. What is gained 
by denying this bit of historical reality -- and the possibility that 
Pynchon alludes to it in GR --  is beyond me, although in the present 
situation it would seem to fit with a previous denial of Pynchon's 
very obvious depiction of Nazi crimes in GR. Which would seem a short 
distance to full-blown Holocaust denial.    A current trend in 
Pynchon studies, based on a quick perusal of the latest issue of 
Pynchon Notes, would instead seem to be a very careful appraisal of 
the ways that Pynchon uses the Holocaust in GR, and it seems to be 
broadly accepted that denying or minimizing Nazi crimes is not part 
of Pynchon's project. I can see how reading Pynchon in ways that tend 
to exculpate the Nazis might fit the current neo-Nazi project, which 
always seeks, quite desperately at times, scholarly endorsement and 
the trappings of academic respectability.

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