Any comments to the revelation that Günter Grass was a member of Waffen SS ?
It is no revelation. Those who wanted to know, knew it decades ago. Leftists did not want to know. They used Günter Grass as their man in order to magnify the automatic process inside Nazi families which consists of transference of guilt from Nazis and older Nazi children to younger family members. It was useful for the Leftists to let Nazi families be paralyzed from inside, by own psychic forces of anguish. Grass became a perfect German denazifier or satanizer since he had to run from his past. The more he nazified or demonized others the more he felt free from his Nazi past. His freedom depended on active repression of truth, of memory, of feelings. He transformed denazification into a litterary fashion, the reason why he got the Nobel Prize in litterature. Grass has reached a standard of German self-hatred which is only challenged by his compatriot Niklas Frank, the famous parent-loathing Nazi child. In Norway we had a professor with the same run-and-smirch-for-hiding syndrom like G
Any comments to the revelation that Günter Grass was a member of Waffen SS ?