defining the Holocaust?

[jbor]

Thanks for your posts. The Nizkor site is very interesting. At this site the
Dora camp is referred to as a "Nazi slave camp"; nowhere could I find it
listed under the heading "The Holocaust Camps". Here is the Nizkor site
definition of the Holocaust:

"when one uses the term "Holocaust," the understood meaning is that of the
systematic murder of six million Jews by the Nazi state"

http://www.nizkor.org/features/revision-or-denial/rebuttals-02.html

Nowhere in GR does Pynchon depict this, nor even mention it in passing. I
stick by my assertion that the Jewish genocide is *not* represented in GR.

Of Weissmann at the Mittelwerke Pynchon writes that it was

     a time which was granting him a power different from Auschwitz or
     Buchenwald, a power they couldn't have borne themselves. . . .
                                                           (666)

I think that's what's "different" is that the "power" at Auschwitz and
Buchenwald was the power over life and death. Weissmann's "power" at
Nordhausen is a power over history itself.

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