A new book about Blicero?

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Thanks, Michel.

Hans Kammler in GR (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics):

"Somewhere nearby, one of Major-Generals Kammler's rocket units had 
together found corporate death, leaving in their crippled military rage 
pieces, modules, airframe sections, batteries rotting, paper secrets 
rained back into slurry." 282

"Blizna was almost exclusively an SS project: part of Maj.-Gen. 
Kammler's empire-building." 424

"The plan---again Kammler's---was now to disperse testing and production 
around Germany, to prevent another and possibly fatal Allied attack." 426

"But the tour with General Kammler's rocketeers is what Slothrop 
perversely wants---wants?---to know about, 'Well I've never been to that 
Nordhausen, sure, seen the bits and pieces. But never a fully-assembled 
A4. That must really be something, huh?'" 464

Friedrich Kittler has argued that Weissmann/Blicero is a combination of 
Walter Dornberger (Weissmann, Wehrmacht) and Hans Kammler (Blicero, SS), 
and that the transformation of one into the other in the course of the 
novel reflects the transfer of command over the V-2 development process 
from the Wehrmacht to the SS as part of a general transfer of power from 
one institution to the other after 20 July 1944.

https://www.goethe.de/resources/files/pdf173/pruefbuch1-kl1.pdf
p. 125-126 (German only)


Am 21.06.2019 um 09:15 schrieb bulb:
> Lecture below was included in he Lublin IPW conference book which I do not have.
> 
> [P]aper secrets rained back into slurry’--Pynchon and Invisibility: The Case of Hans Kammler.” In Thomas Pynchon & the (de)vices of global (post)modernity. Ed. Zofia
> Kolbuszewska. Lublin, Poland: Wydawnictwo KUL Press, 2012. 322-333.
> 
> Michel/