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Heil Gunther

Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:59 pm
by barrie
Gunther Grass served in the Waffen SS...

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europ ... index.html

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:04 pm
by David

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 3:58 pm
by barrie
I've read the article David - 'The New York Times' and 'Washington Post' have also done a couple of good pieces.
I wasn't passing any opinion about the man, there are plenty of 'experts' quite happy to do that - It was the revelation that interested me - The real events will only be ever truly known by one man, but whatever he did will not alter one word in his books, although people will now be reading fresh meaning into them.
He did well to keep it secret for so long - Good luck to him. There were thousands of SS troops, I can't believe that they were all Nazi fanatics.

cheers

Barrie

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:08 pm
by David
I agree with you Barrie. Thank God (or other deity of choice) we've never been put in that position.

David