BtZ42, p.17: sandbagged

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

> and that the Germans used the Baedeker
stars to select targets to bomb <


This is a myth.

It's based on a quote by Gustav Braun von Stumm who said in a press 
conference on 4/24/42:

/„Now the Luftwaffe will go for every building which is marked with 
three stars in Baedeker“ („Jetzt wird die Luftwaffe jedes Gebäude mit 
drei Sternen im Baedeker angreifen“)/

Thing just is that there were no three-stars-marks in the Baedeker, 
neither in the edition from 1937, nor ever before. Even two stars were 
rare, and cities like Exeter, Bath or Norwich did not belong in that 
category.

 > Von Stumms Äußerung war in der Sache falsch, da die Vergabe von drei 
Sternen in Baedeker-Reiseführern gar nicht vorkam, auch nicht bei der 
1937 erschienenen letzten Auflage des Reisehandbuchs für Großbritannien 
vor 1945. <

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baedeker_Blitz


On 07.04.2016 12:41, ish mailian wrote:
>> Slothrop's use of stars instead of pins might be his own way of telling
>> Death to fuck off. Something fun happened here. Atta girl!
> Just another thing to add to the very insightful and wonderful reading
> of LK here. It's been noted that  Baedecker used stars to rate the
> tourist locations in England and that the Germans used the Baedecker
> stars to select targets to bomb. Pynchon, of course, also used the
> Baedecker, and, as he developed from V. to GR, while P continued to
> make use of the useful books, critiqued it as a product the Elect's
> politics and history in/of  Europe.
>
>
> see
> A Supernatural History of Destruction; or, Thomas Pynchon's Berlin
>
> Eric Bulson
> New German Critique
> No. 110, COLD WAR CULTURE (Summer 2010), pp. 49-72
> Published by: Duke University Press
> -
> Pynchon-l /http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
>

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