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Holocaust Chic

By Jeff Waxman ⋅ July 23, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Galleycat reported today on a Kindle sleeve made from a newspaper print fabric.  What’s this remind me of? Oh, just Ilse Koch’s infamous (or alleged?) use of Jewish skin to make lampshades.  Maybe we all remember our victims in similar ways.

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  1. The comparison’s a bit too extreme for me, even in jest.

    Posted by Isaac | July 26, 2010, 6:09 am

  2. [...] Waxman ⋅ July 31, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment Things and other ThingsShareWhen I think of Kindles swaddled in newsprint-cloth and when I think of Francis Fukuyama beers wrapped in roadkill, I also think of poetry chapbooks [...]

    Posted by The Constant Conversation | Things and other Things | July 31, 2010, 12:01 am


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