GR and Nixon

[Malignd]

In response to my writing:

<<Despite Millison's insistence that no one knew such
a thing [attempts by allied corporations to maintain
ties with their German counterparts] before Pynchon
told the world ...>>

Millison wrote:

<<For the record: this is false. Never said it.
Fabricated from whole cloth, like the lies from the
Swift Boat Veterans for Untruth.  A veritable epidemic
of lies in the atmosphere these days. >>

Whole cloth?  According to Millison, a "generation of
historians" have Pynchon to thank for cluing them in. 


<< Unlike the many other American novelists who wrote
about WWII in the 50s and 60s, TRP made public
specific facts about WWII, and the involvement of
American companies and individuals in WWII, that were
not widely known in '73 -- facts that a generation of
historians who follow TRP have taken great pains to
document and explain so that, in 1999, much of what
was relatively obscure and arcane in 1973 finds much
wider distribution and broader acceptance.>>

As does Millison himself.

<<[American corporate and governmental complicity was
... wasn't widely known, however, certainly not the
way the heroic version of our participation in the War
was known. I paid attention in all my history classes
through high school and college (through 1971), and
while I got a good dose of the stirring role the U.S.
played in the war, plus the horrors of the Holocaust,
it wasn't until I bumped into GR that I learned there
was a darker story to be told. >>

<< I guess I'm still wondering if the general outlines
of IF [sic] Farben's activities and of the cartel with
Royal Dutch Shell, Standard Oil of New Jersey, and
Imperial Chemical (ICI) in England were known
primarily in a limited, specialist realm, and if so
can we credit Pynchon with bringing it to light for a
broader public?>>

"We" can't, but you go ahead.







		
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