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August 12, 2006

Meanwhile, Back In Pristine Europe

Waldheimer's, that tragic disease that causes people to forget they were Nazis, claims another victim:


Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass, author of the great anti-Nazi novel The Tin Drum, has admitted serving in the Waffen-SS.

He told a German newspaper he had been recruited at the age of 17 into an SS tank division and served in Dresden.

Previously it was only known he had served as a soldier and was wounded and taken prisoner by US forces.

Speaking before the publication of his war memoirs, he said his silence over the years had "weighed" upon him.

I bet it did.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at August 12, 2006 10:34 AM

Comments

60-some years. Apparently it didn't weigh very heavily.

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at August 12, 2006 10:44 AM

That's the tragic nature of Waldheimers, Ken. Won't you pease give to help us find a cure?

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 12, 2006 10:49 AM

Also, if you could help me remember to use 'preview' occasionally I'd be much obliged.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 12, 2006 10:50 AM

Sure, I'm in for a couple of rounds. Of '06 ammo.

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at August 12, 2006 11:01 AM

Ditto with the '06, but I have some 7.62MM for variety.

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at August 12, 2006 06:34 PM

Well, traditionally, it's been '06 to be used on krauts, at least from 1917 through 1945. But variety is the spice of life, they say.

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at August 12, 2006 06:48 PM

Shhh. Don't tell the pope about waldheimers.

Posted by: Mike Rentner at August 12, 2006 10:29 PM

I'd like to contribute a few .303 rounds (174g FMJ) for further variety.

Posted by: Gunslinger at August 12, 2006 11:01 PM

The fact that his (Grass's) silence had weighed on him should be given approximately the same amount of credence as was given to the statements from many living adjacent to the Death Camps that they sometimes "Worried about the strange smell from the tall chimneys!"

Posted by: Mike Cunningham at August 13, 2006 12:50 PM

Hi Mike! Long time no see!

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at August 13, 2006 02:23 PM