VV(12): Haw-Haw

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks!  I think this is one of those exchanges which
is esp. worth a full-on annotation, not to mention
reading and discussion.  I'll do what I can, but I'm
only just reading up on, say, D'Annunzio and Fiume,
and the less generally known German references here I
know nothing of save what Grant mnetions in his
Companion and what Kai has already kindly posted.  I
will note that Mondaugen, Baedeker and Schreber all
hail originally from Leipzig, which I take as not a
coincidence.  And jbor raises questions about
Weissman's later "finagled" decryption of Monadaugen's
sferics, as well as Mondaugen's engineering background
(and here take into account Pynchon's own stint as,
not an engineer, but as a technical writer similarly
involved in the aerospace end of the
military/industrial complex) that I hope to take up in
time as well.  In the menatime, see Jeffrey Herf,
Reactionary Modernism, I believe Ch. 4 covers politics
and engineering in interwar Germany ...

--- Michel Ryckx <michel.ryckx at freebel.net> wrote:
> Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> > National Socialist German Workers' Party? Adolf
> Hitler?  Kautsky's
> > Independents?" (V., Ch. 9, Sec. ii, p. 242)
> 
> Mondaugen doesn't say yes, doesn't say no.  He says
> something about so
> many capitals.
> 
> Mondaugen is still a student in 1922 and has never
> heard of the NSDAP
> and A.H. --which is understandable since the
> Municher putsch by Hitler
> and Ludendorff took place on November 8/9/1923.  The
> trial afterwards
> was the first time the name Hitler became known to a
> larger public.
> 
> The history of Munich after WW1 is confusing and it
> took the Weimar
> republic a while before they were more or less able
> to control the
> city.  Munich was the setting of a 'Raden Republik',
> kind of a communist
> experiment; then there were the fights between the
> left (socialists and,
> usually,  more to the left) and nationalists who
> were supported by some
> remnants of the (hierarchy of the) German army.
> 
> Michel.


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