Credit:Florian KAn SS man speaks
There can’t be many Nobel laureates who served in the Waffen SS. In fact I can only think of one - Günter Grass, author of The Tin Drum, Germany’s best known writer and the self-appointed moral arbiter of his nation and its times. He was, not surprisingly, a tad ashamed of his background, which meant he kept quite about it for decades, all the while throwing around homilies on this on that and on the other, a little like Zeus firing lightening bolts from Olympus.
Now he has written a poem, not about his Nazi past but about the ‘threat’ that a nuclear-armed...
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Leaves of Grass
I agree with you Anastasia...It is not Israel but Iran is a threat to world peace...Many don’t wish to see, what Iran's intentions are...it is much more sinister and much more dangerous...At his fag end Gunter Grass wanted to be subservient to the cause...
Christian Holocaust
CB, sorry I missed this. I was only in Moscow for a week, and that's a few years ago now. Unfortunately I can't read Russian, though learning the langauge is one of my targets. So much to do; so little time. :-)
