Nobel prize winner Grass admits serving in Nazi SS

Reuters ^ | Fri Aug 11, 2006

[lizol]

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[TommyDale]

Does this make Grass's ass grass?

[Karliner]

Dresden huh...firebombed to oblivion. I wonder if he ran?

[King Moonracer]

The irony of it all. He was an oppressor of the Jews in WWII, and now's he's a peacenik, which again, oppresses the Jews.

[Sonny M]

Since he is such a peace activist, I guess his war crimes are okay now.

Nothing to see here, move along, don't look at the Nazi SS storm trooper, he loves peace now.

[xpertskir]

"Nobel prize winner Grass admits serving in Nazi SS"
I though that was a qualification?

[DustyMoment]

I read Gunter Grass' Tin Drum a bazillion years ago. It took me 4 years to wade through it and, at the end, I wound up wondering why I had expended the effort. I didn't see the point of the novel and wrote it off as a pretty good waste of time and energy on my part.

That doesn't have anything to do with him being a former nazi, but he isn't much of a writer (IMO), either!!

[DustyMoment]

I read Gunter Grass' Tin Drum a bazillion years ago. It took me 4 years to wade through it and, at the end, I wound up wondering why I had expended the effort. I didn't see the point of the novel and wrote it off as a pretty good waste of time and energy on my part.

That doesn't have anything to do with him being a former nazi, but he isn't much of a writer (IMO), either!!

[Moral Hazard]

"In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Grass, 78, said he volunteered for submarine service towards the end of World War Two. He was called up instead to serve in the Waffen-SS in the eastern city of Dresden."

I guess it kind of follows that he didn't end up in the submarine service. If he had he wouldn't have lived long enough to write anything.

[OldFriend]

What a damned liar. Are we to believe that most men joined Hitler's army to escape their families?

[Sans-Culotte]

You actually read it when you could have simply watched the movie? Are you a masochist?

[nyconse]

I was reading a description of the Warsaw uprising and what the Nazi's did. The SS were the worst. This man talks peace, but no doubt he is a mass murderer-disgusting.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

How do you volunteer for submarine service near the end of WWII - were there any left?

[cyborg]

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[nyconse]

The SS was manned by volunteers...they were the Elite. I don't believe he was drafted into the SS-he chose the SS.

[Petronski]

Drafted into the Waffen-SS? I must admit, that's a new one on me. Anyone have a reference to such a thing?

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Well, technically, most of the German fleet that could leave the harbor were, or had become, submarines. (They had also become coffins as well.)

[King Moonracer]

What a damned liar. Are we to believe that most men joined Hitler's army to escape their families?

Sounds like he's pandering to the rebelliousness of today's youth and college crowd, just like Cher and Madonna.

Cher, Madonna, and Gunther Grass....thats a neat sentence.

[elcid1970]

Guenter Grass was a screaming anti American all through the Cold War.

Now we find out he was anti American before 1945. From Nazi to Socialist.

No conscience, none.