> Furthermore, Grass' latest book, /Crablike,/ describes the intentional
> sinking of a refugee ship in the Baltic by a Soviet Navy that seemed
> incapable of doing anything else. Incomprehensibly, he's been
> denounced within Germany because of service as a 18-year old in an SS
> formation during the last days of the war. Far better for some, it
> would seem, to have your mother raped and killed than to clip an SS
> insignia on your collar!
Bill, this is not correct. Günter Grass was not denounced for having
been in the SS for a short period in his youth but for keeping it a
secret for over 60 years. He is to blame because he has willingly played
a major role in German public and in this case in was not up to his own
standards.
Herbert
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