[neverdem]

Peter Gay, a professor emeritus of history at Yale, is the author of the forthcoming “Modernism: The Lure of Heresy.”

An Open Letter to Günter Grass (Waffen SS member, just recently revealed)

[JennysCool]

Leave it to the Times to stick up for the National Socialists.

[sionnsar]

Günter Grass: Waffen SS

Tell me why I am not surprised.

There is NO dishonesty that the Left is incapable of honoring.

[BusterBear]

The left has a de-facto alliance with the Islamo-fascists now, so it stands to reason that they should try to get us to understand Gunter Grass' "predicament" (he was young, he was "ashamed" after the war, etc.). Compare this with the vitriolic diatribes against George W. Bush.

And by the way, has any representative of the MSM informed his audience about the alliance between the Arabs in the Middle East, the Bosnian Muslims, and the Nazis during World War II? About the doings of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem? Nooo...they are freedom fighters now.

[xkaydet65]

In 1943 17 year olds were not being drafted into the Waffen SS. That went against the entire raison d'etre of the institution.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

When I first heard about this, I wondered whether he volunteered or was drafted. It makes a big difference, IMHO -- because the volunteers were Nazis through and through -- while the draftees didn't have a choice.