pynchon-l-digest V2 #1446

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<< I'm not aware that Levi or Wiesel have written novels in which 
multinational corporations are seen to profit from supplying both sides in WW 
II and from the Holocaust, or suggesting that from the Holocaust, and the 
rocket research, development and manufacture that the Holocaust made 
possible, springs the post-War missile program. >>

Try sticking to your claims.  You said nothing about fiction.  You said 
Pynchon "shattered" preconceived notions about the Holocaust.  That's an 
absurd, ahistorical statement.  

The rocketry program during WWII benefitted from the labor of the enslaved, 
but there would have been a rocketry program in Germany in any case.  The 
science was there; the war was the impetus, the enslaved the handy labor 
source.  To say the Holocaust made rocketry possible is like saying that 
American slavery made cotton possible.

As for the mutual cooperation during the war of international coroporations, 
this has been known since the years immediately following the war, some 
twenty years befrore GR.  The book, The Sovereign State of ITT, discussed 
this in detail and was a popular best-seller in the sixties.