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[Richard Romeo]

Himmler also had some scheme late in the war to negotiate with the allies over Jewish lives. 

Rich

> On Jun 19, 2016, at 8:32 AM, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I still have doubts whether it's about (or even if it includes) the Holocaust. Here the central act of mass murder is the series of V2 attacks against London. It is not that Pynchon was insensitive, but his sensitivity was specifically American. War is Business.  "Jews are negotiable." Which does not mean he (the implied author)  ​is inhumane but simply he cannot reconstruct the experience and logic of raw, bloody totalitarianism, where business means nothing and the laws of organizational sociology don't apply. Like in the Soviet scenes, where, quite unlike the hyperrealism of the London scenes, he doesn't make any effort at all to reconstruct Stalin's Russia.
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> The "Jews are negotiable" concept, by the way, might have come from the proposed "Blood for Trucks" transaction in wartime Budapest, which became public knowledge with the Eichmann trial.
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