Crownshaw's PN article

[Doug Millison]

I had hoped to get responses from people who had actually read 
Crownshaw's article.  If you've read the article, you'll know that 
the concluding quote,

  "Where Pynchon dramatizes how the Holocaust is
recalled only to be subsumed in an official History which
rationalizes or mytifies the evolution of the American
military-industrial complex, the allegorical recognition of trauma
allows a disruption to take place. Allegory recognizes the
transmission of trauma from Holocaust memory to the narratives (and
agents) that rewrite it. If Holocaust revisionism depends on the
resolute conclusion of such narratives, trauma disrupts this process.
Therefore, where Holocaust history and memory are recalled only for
  their suppression, allegory can render this erasure incomplete."

follows, and would seem to refer rather closely to a  detailed 
analysis of Pokler's story and especially his encounter with the dead 
Dora slaves, coming as it does at the end of a  long article that 
also includes a detailed reading of Katje's S/M games with Pudding, 
and which touches directly on the work of David Seed, Dale Carter, 
Paul Fussell, Bainerd Cowen, Deborah Madsen, Kali Tal, Walter 
Benjamin, and Cathy Caruth.

Intelligent discussion of Crownshaw's article would also require a 
familiarity with the interpretation Crownshaw gives to Slothrop's 
visit to the Mittelwerke, otherwise it's just shadow-boxing.
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