Good God-Gunter Grass was in the Waffen SS!

[nam78_two]

I am really stunned-I have admired so much of his work for years-its stunning to me that he was in the Waffen SS.....:wtf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/arts/17gras.html

It puts his books about Nazi Germany in an entirely different perspective now...

The reaction in Germany to this admission has been one of disbelief and indignation: not that a teenager should have been recruited into the Waffen SS as Hitler struggled to avoid defeat, but that the country’s most prominent writer should have hidden this while hectoring others for their political and social sins from the comfort of the moral high ground. “I do not understand how someone can elevate himself constantly for 60 years as the nation’s bad conscience, precisely in Nazi questions, and only then admit that he himself was deeply involved,” Joachim Fest, a prominent historian and biographer of Hitler, told the newspaper Bild. “I don’t know how he could play this double role for so long.”

Edit: Yuck and now German conservatives are seizing on the opportunity! You know I really can't stand conservatives -they seizeon anything as a political opportunity to further their own interests....sheesh...:puke:

[dipsydoodle]

1. Maybe he left the Hitler Youth

because they were not quite far enough right wing.

[slackmaster]

2. Psycho-nurse bitch ex-GF kept my copy of The Tin Drum

:mad: