Guenter Grass

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:26 pm

The author of The Tin Drum was in the Waffen SS.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 601D56.DTL

I'm shocked.

helitack · Post by **helitack** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:31 pm

I'm not, we reached the moon first because of von Braun, a Nazi scientist.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:38 pm

Grass's work is so anti nazi, at least as I read it...

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:07 pm

my son's waldorf teacher's dad was in the waffen ss too. had a tatoo on his arm...the fuckin nazis were really into tatoos

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:43 pm

My history teacher as a Sophomore in HS was an officer on a U boat in the German Navy. Used to bring in his photo albums on occasion, told what it was like on the "other" side of the war, and told some pretty spooky stories about their campaigns, especially later in the war... In the 90's, he was a consultant for the game "WolfPack" for the German half of the game.

Um... he was also pretty biased against undisciplined kids, tho if you were serious about stuff, he was a heck of a nice guy. Remember one of my friends got a ride from her cousin to school on the back of his harley, and his comments... well... let's just say sich things aren't allowed nowdays. Um Hmmm...

Post by **Eric** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:15 pm

One of my first boyfriends was the grandson of an unrepentant nazi officer.

We used to wish he could see what this Jew was doing to his grandson.....

*hee*

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:09 am

thanks for the laugh, Eric.