IVIV (8): Yet another Hitler Documetary

[Dave Monroe]

"'What are you watching, sounds like yet another Hitler documentary.'"
(IV, Ch. 8. p. 121)


"sounds like yet another Hitler documentary"

Watching the Hitlery Channel, avant la lettre?  Viz. ...

http://www.history.com/

And cf. ...

"managerial Volkswagen" (GR, Pt. IV, p.  755)

V755.28, B881.36 the black Managerial Volkswagen Improbable as a
managerial limousine, but implicated here perhaps because VW plants at
Fallersleben and Magdeburg manufactured V-Weapon parts ....
[Weisenburer, Companion, p. 315]

http://www.ugapress.org/0820328111.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=mj7sFr6b6aMC

The "another" implies that they had watched other Hitler documentaries
- the most famous being Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will. The
description of the Nixon rally that Doc is watching has similarities
to Triumph.

One of Pynchon's research materials for writing Gravity's Rainbow was
a book called From Caligari to Hitler by Siegfried Kracauer.

Note that Triumph of the Will was a favorite film of G. Gordon Liddy,
a main figure in the Watergate scandal that enveloped President Nixon,
whose televised rally Penny mistakes for a Hitler documentary.

http://thenewnixon.org/2009/08/04/more-on-inherent-vice/

Kracuaer, Siegfried A.  From Caligari to Hitler:
   A Psychological History of the German Film.
   Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1947..

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/1369.html
http://www.archive.org/details/fromcaligaritohi013829mbp
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0404&msg=90311

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0909&msg=142704


"the Century Plaza"

http://www.centuryplaza.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp


"Vigilant California"

http://gov.ca.gov/

http://www.cagop.org/

... the President himself shows up to speak at the Century Plaza
Hotel, to a group calling itself “Vigilant California.” (In real life
RN did appear at the hotel in 1970, but at a press conference in June,
a month or so after the time in which this passage takes place.) ...

http://thenewnixon.org/2009/08/04/more-on-inherent-vice/

The Dead Kennedys, "California Über Alles" (1979)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K217GdcrWvc
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R607141630/e
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_%C3%9Cber_Alles


"the unhip side"

I.e., the Other Side, with unkind motivations?

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0909&msg=142733