Nothing to see here, move along, don't look at the Nazi SS storm trooper, he loves peace now.
Big difference between being put into the SS in 1945 and volunteering for it in 1935.
Sorry, but the Waffen SS was an elite unit, which fought mostly at the front. In Grass´ case, his bataillon was not involved in atrocities against civilians. And when he was drafted, he was 15. And you speak of "his war crimes"??
"Nothing to see here, move along, don't look at the Nazi SS storm trooper, he loves peace now."
It seems about a year ago when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope the MSM thought it was BIG NEWS that as a teen he was forced to serve a small amount of time in the Hitler youth movement.
AND - that is something that Ratzinger was not "silent" about. It was a well known fact in his personal history.
How many people remember the "Nazi pope" comments from the press back then?