question re Dora camp

[Can't Wait]

I had a hamster once that died.  That would put The Holocaust death
toll at 12,000,001.  It may not have been a person to you, but it was
to me.

Bless his heart.

cw


--- Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >--
> >"...I note that on the few occasions of which I am aware where
> purveyors of
> >anti-Semitic propaganda have endeavoured to justify their
> materials in
> >court on the facts and the merits, they have been singularly
> unsuccessful..."
> >   
> (http://www2.ca.nizkor.org/hweb/people/s/scully-olga/reason.html)
> 
> -- 
> d  o  u  g    m  i  l  l  i  s  o  n 
<http://www.online-journalist.com>


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