Pynchon & rap

[Doug Millison]

Doug:
> McVay did, in fact, correct "jbor's" ludicrous assertion that the Dora
> slaves in GR weren't Holocaust victims.

"jbor"
You'll be hard pressed to find any such assertion in the archives, of
course, because it was never made. 



'jbor's" claim here is untrue.

See this post
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0010&msg=140&keywords=McVay



Another veteran P-lister corroborated McVay's correction of "rj/jbor's"
assertion that the Dora inmates were not Holocaust victims:
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0010&msg=130&keywords=McVay
>In the meantime, I do note the presence of Dora references at the Nizkor
>site--especially the presence of Dora on the list titled Holocaust:  The
>Camps <http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/camps/>;.  Furthermore, noting the
>following account by Benjamin Jacobs, a Jewish inmate of Auschwitz who was
>eventually transferred to Dora (where he saw his former Hebrew teacher dead
>on his bunk), I wouldn't dare suggest that his Dora experience was distinct
>from his Auschwitz experience as far as the Holocaust is concerned.


Here's what McVay said:
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0010&msg=132&keywords=McVay
At 4:39 PM -0400 10/3/00, Ken McVay wrote:
>In my mind, the Holocaust comprised the deliberate targeting of
>innocents, as opposed, for instance, to collaterial victims of bombings
>or ship sinkings, etc.
>
>The largest groups of Holocaust victims were the European Jews,
>followed by about (if memory serves, but don't quote me) 3 million
>Soviet POWs.
>
>Slave labourers were systematically worked to death. At Monowitz, their
>diet was about 320 calories a day, which sounds pretty deliberate to
>me.
>
>Many of the victims who were sent to Dora were arrested as "racial
>inferiors" and sent to Auschwitz first... I would find it strange if
>one were to insist that such a person would be a Holocaust victim if he
>was sent to Auschwitz, but not if he then went to Dora.
>
>I am amazed that anyone would even raise the issue.