NP (as if I needed to point that out) Re: Nizkor

[Jeremy Osner]

jbor wrote:

> The "functional difference" between the camps is that Dora was a labour camp
> and Auschwitz and Buchenwald were extermination camps. I believe this is
> quite straight-forward. Pynchon depicts, glancingly, the "foreign prisoners"
> working at the Mittelwerke. He nowhere depicts or mentions the genocide of
> the Jews.

For more on the distinction between death camps and labor camps, read Gitta
Sereny's excellent *Into That Darkness*. It is a biography (with interviews) of
Franz Stangl, who was the commandant of Treblinka and oversaw a large portion of
the Final Solution.