One More Thing to Hate about Dentists

[Mark Kohut]

GREAT F'IN' FIND...THANKS.

Gunther Grass, with his thing about dentists too---see esp. Local anaesthetic, must know this too.....

--- On Fri, 10/9/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: One More Thing to Hate about Dentists
> To: "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 12:04 PM
> The Nazi party claimed it around
> 1920. In ''Mein Kampf,'' Hitler, who
> had artistic aspirations as well as political ones,
> described ''his
> quest to find the perfect symbol for the party.'' He toyed
> with the
> idea of using swastikas. But it was Friedrich Krohn, a
> dentist from
> Starnberg, who designed the flag with a black swastika in
> its center
> 
> reading Joachim Fest's biography of Hitler where I saw it
> first mentioned
>