Hitler and denial for the sake of argument

[jbor]

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>From: J Suete <jsuete at postmaster.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: Hitler and denial for the sake of argument
>Date: Wed, Aug 9, 2000, 5:12 PM
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> 33, 116, 135, 151, 275, 287, 300, 309, 349, 373,
> 394, 403, 415(wow holocaust and Hitler on the same page), 450, 476, 496, 526,
571, 626, 630.

This catalogue of one- or two-line offhand mentions of Hitler's policies,
his name, his face depicted on stamps or photos, someone perhaps sitting
next to him at the movies, characters exchanging "Heil Hitlers", a
chimpanzee mimic and a "pre-Hitler" car, sort of proves my point I think.
Most occur in dialogue between *actual* characters depicted in the novel,
very occasionally are they narratorial. Leni's (I think) reference to "the
grim phoenix which creates its own holocaust" on 415 is Pokler's flashback
to long before the death camps, and a deliberate decontextualisation of the
adjective as on 118.12, but I'll pay you National Socialism in its place. So
-- being generous here -- I'll add another half-page to the earlier
calculation. Shall I redo the math, or will you admit the point?

best