That Verdammte Ape Again!

[Prashant Kumar]

And this guy's a Junior Fellow at Harvard too. Oy.

P.


On 7 October 2013 23:24, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> After the post below, I should have followed up.  In July I leafed through
> Urwand's book and decided it was hyperventilating, pseudo-"now it can be
> told" crap. It's very much along the lines of Edwin Black's _IBM and the
> Holocaust_, which "revealed" that ZOMG, the Nazis used IBM machine
> tabulation  in the course of the Final Solution, just as they - and  the US
> and other governments - used it in the course of hundreds of other
> programs. Ergo technology = genocide.****
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> Fortunately, David Denby has picked up the slack:****
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> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/09/how-could-harvard-have-published-ben-urwands-the-collaboration.html
> ****
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> w/r/t the Rhine cruise, Denby writes, "I think Urwand completely
> misunderstands the pleasure cruise. The studio bosses, posing for photos in
> front of castles in their nifty costumes, were not betraying their
> closeness to Hitler (which, in any case, Urwand never demonstrates). Much
> more likely, they were taking a victory lap: 'We won this war, and now we
> are going to run this country and ride in your goddamn boat.' "****
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> Or as someone once put it:****
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> "The Paranoids were singing, to the tune of  'Adeste Fideles': ****
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>             Hey, solid citizen, we just pinched your bo-oat,****
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>             Hey, solid citizen, we just pinched your boat . . ."****
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> *From:* Monte Davis [mailto:montedavis at verizon.net]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 26, 2013 6:42 AM
> *To:* pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Subject:* That Verdammte Ape Again!****
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> From a review of Ben Urwand's _*The Collaboratioo: Hollywood's Pact with
> Hitler*_****
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/books/scholar-asserts-that-hollywood-avidly-aided-nazis.html
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> ["Urwand] also uncovered detailed records of regular studio visits by
> German officials, including Georg Gyssling, the special consul assigned to
> monitor Hollywood, who watched films, dictated scene-by-scene requests for
> cuts and engaged in bizarre debates. (Did "King Kong," for example,
> constitute "an attack on the nerves of the German people?")"****
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> And for your Chums of Utgarthaloki Afloat File:****
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> "...a scrapbook in which Jack Warner documented a Rhine cruise that he and
> other studio executives took with an Allied escort on Hitler's former yacht
> in July 1945 as part of a trip exploring postwar business opportunities."*
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