Full title: Once a Nazi, Always a Nazi: Former SS Member and Nobel winner Grass: 'Israel a threat to world peace'
Nobel gave their peace prize to Nazis and Palestinian terrorists. Ha ha!
An unindicted co-conspirator in the Nazi regime.
Good grief! It seems like these people never die, and never fade away either. - My dad was a WWII combat veteran; passed away about 10 yrs. ago, would be 91 if he were living today. - Of course, a lot of the Nazi’s have died by now, but seems like a lot have been left. Soros, for one, comes to mind.
Grass was drafted into the Waffen SS when he was 17. That hardly makes him a Nazi.
Here’s what he has said:
Grass said in the interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: “It had to come out, finally. The thing went as follows: I had volunteered, not for the Waffen-SS but for the submarines, which was just as crazy of me. But they were not taking anyone any more. Whereas the Waffen-SS took whatever they could get in the last months of the war, 1944/45. That went for conscripts but also for older men, who often came from the Air Force - they were called ‘Hermann Göring donations.’ The fewer intact airfields there were, the more ground personnel were stuck in army units or in units of the Waffen-SS. It was the same with the navy. And for me, I am sure I am remembering correctly, the Waffen-SS was at first not something scary, but rather an elite unit that was always sent to trouble spots, and which, according to rumour, had the most casualties.”
He said he volunteered mainly to “get away. From constrictions, from the family. I wanted to put an end to all that, and so I volunteered. And that’s also something odd: I enlisted at the age of 15, and promptly forgot the details of the process. And it was the same for many of my birth year: We were in the work service and suddenly, a year later, the conscription order lay on the table. And that must be when I first realized: it is the Waffen-SS.” Asked whether he had feelings of guilt, Grass answered: “At the time? No. Later on, this guilt feeling burdened me as a disgrace.” It wasn’t until he heard the testimony of Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach in the Nuremberg trials that he “believed that the crimes had actually taken place.”
Later, he thought that “what I did in my writing was enough.” The 1950s did not seem to be the right time to confess. “We were under Adenauer, ghastly, with all those lies, with all that Catholic fug. The society of that day was fed by a kind of stuffiness that never existed under the Nazis.”
http://www.signandsight.com/features/899.html
He’s an excellent author...I have Cat and Mouse and The Flounder on the bookshelf.
Three days ago I had a fellow worker ask why I had a “#ucking Jew flag on my truck?
He woke up about 5 minutes later.
He couldn’t remember anything that happened that day!!
This is sort of like once a Soviet Commie always a Soviet Commie...