Posted on 04/13/2015 12:32:49 PM PDT by mojito
Günter Grass, the German novelist, social critic and Nobel Prize winner whom many called his country’s moral conscience but who stunned Europe when he revealed in 2006 that he had been a member of the Waffen-SS during World War II, died on Monday in the northern German city of Lübeck, which had been his home for decades. He was 87.
His longtime publisher, Gerhard Steidl, told reporters that he learned late Sunday that Mr. Grass had been hospitalized after falling seriously ill very quickly. The cause of death was not announced.
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What he didn't like was the FRG.
And that's not surprising.
RIP.
Not one of my favorite authors. I remember the days when he was on the New York Times Bestseller List. Which is no recommendation for me.
RIP.
Waffen S’S Nazi
Just like Kurt Waldheim.
They made a lot more out of Pope Benedict being a Wehrmacht draftee than this guy volunteering for the Waffen-SS.
A fitting epitaph.
Well, bye.
The Left loved this guy.
Here he is (a former Nazi) spouting hatred and blame and war mongering claims regarding Israel (da jooz) and Booosh (he was a Bush hasser).
Israeli Letter-poem to Grass: If We Go, Everyone Goes
Arutz Sheva ^ | 8/4/12 | Gil Ronen
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2869664/posts
Israeli poet Itamar Yaoz-Kest, a Holocaust survivor, has penned a public “letter-poem” in reply to the “poem” in which German Günter Grass accused Israel of “endangering the already fragile world peace.”
The letter-poem was published on journalist Ze’ev Galili’s blog, in Hebrew, under the name: “The Right to Exist: a Poem-Letter to the German Author.” It addresses Grass, who has admitted to being a member of the Waffen SS during World War II, by name.
German Nobel Laureate: Bush “Threat to World Peace” (Barf alert1 Barf Alert!)
Islam Online ^ | December 30 2002 | Khaled Shmitt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/814186/posts
Renowned German writer Guenter Grass, attacked U.S. president George W. Bush, saying he is a threat to world peace, adding that his actions are based on a disturbed familial atmosphere.
In an interview Sunday, December 29, with the German Welt am Sonntag, Grass, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999, said that in the current political situation, the dangerous mix of financial, political and family-related interests have made Bush a truly dangerous politician.
Grass, who is a personal friend of German chancellor Schroeder, also said that Bush’s personality strikes a resemblance between the new liberalism which the United States presents and the terror which it’s fighting against.
In addition, Grass, who is dubbed by the German media as the ‘German Conscience’, felt that there is a resemblance between Bush and one of the Shakespearean characters who had a psychological complex and who only wanted to please his father regardless of the consequences.
Grass also said that the higher purpose for the war against Iraq, according to Bush, was to prove to his father that he is able to succeed in what he failed to do during the 1991 war. He also stressed that Bush’s intent in creating a conflict in Iraq in this ‘boyish manner’, especially after waging a war on Afghanistan, will lead to the creation of a new wave of terrorism in the world.
Regarding the real reasons behind the war on Iraq, Grass said that economic reasons play an important role because it combines a general, unannounced reason from the United States, which entails the U.S.’s desire to control the oil in Iraq and a private, also unannounced reason which entails saving his family, which controls several large oil companies from the economic crisis which it faces.
Grass also said that another reason for the war includes the U.S. obsession with parading itself as the world’s only super power which can control the rest of the world, despite the fact that its president lacks the general knowledge concerning these countries.
Kurt Waldheim was an intelligence officer in the Wehrmacht. The Waffen SS is much worse.
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