VV(13): Enters Weismann

[Otto]

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> >From: Doug Millison <DMillison at ftmg.net>
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> >>Look at the context in which Pynchon puts Weissmann -- in V., an officer
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> >>the service of a nation on a mission of genocide
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> I think it's quite a stretch to try and say that the Weimar Republic
> (1918-1933) was "a nation on a mission of genocide".
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> best
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Of course the Weimar Republic wasn't involved in any genocides.

But was Weissmann on an official mission for the Weimar Republic at all? I
don't have that impression when he talks to Kurt about Munich, Hitler
fascism and national socialism. When he says that "we can get it back" (the
protectorate, on p. 242) this is fascist ideology and no official policy.

Additionally I don't have the impression that he is "personally" on a
genocide-mission from what I read about him in V., so it's really a stretch.

Do we ever get an info in which organization he is an officer in 1922? There
is no regular German army at this time, only the Reichswehr.

Otto