Subject: Re: list
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 06:34:07 EST
At 8:00 PM -0800 on 1/12/2000, you wrote:
> The movie Slaughterhouse Five contains a scene
> where the prisoners are either sorting old clothes or
> being given them to wear in Hamburg, under the eyes of
> the S.S. One women's fur coat comes along the
> conveyer and it is given to befuddled and bewildered
> Billy Pilgrim. It is too small and looks ridiculous
> on him. It is a woman's evening vest length
> coat/jacket.
> I suddenly was taken aback wondering about it's
> source, whether these were clothes being sent back to
> Germany from extermination camp victims. Then I also
> wondered, whether this reference (for the audience to
> make the same jump) was intended by the film's
> director.
Yes, the pile of frozen clothing from which Billy Pilgrim's
ridiculous coat is extracted is from Nazi victims in the camps. The
entire portion of the book dealing with Pilgrim's flashbacks to
Germany are filled with the sense of menace about the Nazis and the
camps and the forced labor done by P.O.W.s.
--tim o'connor
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