re re re re Re: "The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR Part 1 Section 1

[pynchonoid]

If the War in GR is WWII and the disturbances in the
Zone  in the period immediately following, doesn't a
reader have to accept it as the WWII of history,
complete with Final Solution, Holocaust, land, sea,
and air battles, the Home Front (Allied and Axis),
etc.? (As well as including the purely fictional and
fantastic elements that Pynchon writes about.) Pynchon
takes great care to create and evoke the historical
period, and he includes enough direct references to
the Holocaust to nail it for the reader, who can
safely assume that the novel's settings include the
death camps, and labor camps (if the reader want to
make that kind of hair-splitting distinction along
with the Nazi Final Solution categorization and naming
fiends), the dead Jews, Rom, homosexuals, and all the
rest.

Any reader can imagine whatever she wants about GR, of
course, free to ignore the evidence of the Holocaust
that Pynchon includes in GR. But, why twist the text
that way? 




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