"The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR Part 1 Section 1

Tim Strzechowski dedalus204 at comcast.net
Thu Oct 27 08:42:39 CDT 2005


I respectfully disagree, to the extent that although the Final Solution et al may not be "described" in detail, Nazi warfare is the stage of enough of the narrative to justify any Holocaust-related resonances within the novel.

Tim




Jbor:
> One can also argue that they weren't. But whichever way you want to 
> argue the semantics of it, the fact still remains that the ‘the Final 
> Solution of the Jewish Question’ enacted by the SS in the Nazi death 
> camps -- at Chelmno, Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz-Birkenau and 
> Majdanek, along with Jungfernhof (in Latvia) and Maly Trostinets (in 
> Byelorussia) -- is nowhere described or referred to in the novel. 
> 
> http://www.holocaust-education.dk/lejre/udryddelseslejre.asp 
> 
> best 
> 
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