question re Dora camp

[Doug Millison]

Dear Mr. McVay,

Thanks very much for your response, in which you indicate that you 
would call  the Dora inmates Holocaust victims.

Cordially,
Doug

At 4:25 PM -0400 10/3/00, Ken McVay wrote:
>You wrote:
>
>>I participate in the discussion on the Pynchon-L listserve.  As you
>>may know, Thomas Pynchon's novel, Gravity's Rainbow, includes a
>>depiction of slave laborers and dead and dying prisoners at the Dora
>>camp, as well as an extended passage that takes place in the
>>Mittelwerk facility, where these slave laborers were forced to help
>>build V-2 rockets. A disagreement has emerged, concerning whether or
>>not the deaths at Dora -- and more generally, the Dora camp itself --
>>could be considered an aspect of the Holocaust.  Some of us were
>>wondering if you'd care to offer an answer to that question.
>
>I would certainly consider these people victims of the Holocaust. To
>me, that term addresses the death of 12 million people.
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>anti-Semitic propaganda have endeavoured to justify their materials in
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