Grass Defends Long Silence as Book Sales Soar
This headline says it all. In case you disagree with me, I push you towards Andrew Hammel's entry on Grass: Ja, Guenter Grass was a Nazi
And once you're there, check out this entry as well: Nein, George W. Bush is not a Nazi
Btw, the Wikipedia tells me that Guenter Grass changed his family name from "Graß" to "Grass" decades ago. I consider this a bold hint. Matter-of-factly, we were all blind.
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Don,
This is not that devastating a revelation in my opinion.
It's not the fact itself. It's the time line.
The parallel with Pope Benedict is striking.
Huh? How's that?
The whole GG/SS-story is a perfect example of "What goes around comes around". Grass has made incredible stupid statements on German society, capitalism, the U.S. and German reunification. His motto when dealing with his opponents always was (and still is, for that matter): Nuke the common ground first, and then bash them as if there's no tomorrow. And that's the most striking difference between Grass and Ratzinger, by the way.
Those Germans, who want to make the whole thing a dicussion about 1933-45 or about comming to terms with that period in the 50's or 60's just want to distract from Grass's behavior in the 80's and afterwards. As for me, that is not the point. Not at all.
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