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

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 27, 2005, at 9:42 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
>
>

I don't really understand this statement. Could you clarify what you  
mean?

Are you saying saying that it would be impossible to portray the  
Nazis at war without also somehow portraying (off stage?) the Final  
Solution? This would seem to me to be a very extreme position, even  
though slave labor did play its part for the Axis side.

It is clear to everyone, isn't it,  that the war between the Allies  
and the Axis powers  was NOT over the Final Solution.  Rather, it was  
that the  Nazi war machine had consumed much of Europe, at one point  
almost to the point of an all out invasion of the British Isles. The  
fate of Europe was in the balance. The attempt on the part of the  
Allies to reverse the disastrous situation  would have been the case  
with or without the Death and Labor camps. And the effort of the  
Nazis to hang on until the bitter end would  also have been the same  
with or without them.

Forgive me if this is all too obvious and if I am somehow missing the  
point.

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>
>
> 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
> >