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'''I was voted the Sweetheart of 3/Art. Abt. (mot) 485'''<br>
Contrary to what Weisenburger claims in his Companion, there ''was'' such a unit. In fact, their job was launching V2s. Under the supervision on SS-Gruppenführer Kammler, Division z. V. (zur Vergeltung) was set up for launching A4 rockets [http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Waffen/V2.htm]. Within the Division, Artillerie-Abteilung (motorisiert) 485 was part of Gruppe Nord, together with SS-Werfer-Batterie 500. The Abteilung (batalion) was transformed into a regiment in August 1944. While launching units 1 and 2 were in the Hague area, 3/Art. Abt. (mot) 485 was stationed in Western Germany, with targets in France and Belgium.
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'''Have you been up to the Broken yet?'''<br>
When asked if she were a witch, Geli makes reference to the Brocken, a mountain in northern Germany which Goethe describes in <i>Faust</i> as the center of revelry for witches. This may again be a reference to Pynchon’s Cornell teacher Vladimir Nabokov and his book <i>Pale Fire</i>. In that book Nabokov indirectly (and humorously) references the Broken when Kinbote talks of "an anthology of poets and a brocken of their wives" as a way of comparing Sybil Shade to a witch.
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