"The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR Part 1 Section 1
Keith McMullen
keithsz at sbcglobal.net
Thu Oct 27 09:27:39 CDT 2005
not sure where the disagreement lies.....jbor didn't say there were no
such resonances, and his statement is an important one in understanding
the novel....it makes the screaming all the louder.....
On Oct 27, 2005, at 6:42 AM, Tim Strzechowski wrote:
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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