Submitted by Dave Levy, Jul 3, 2007 06:20

Gunther Grass was interviewed on PBS on July 2, 2007.

He referred a few times to Germany's barbarison and the NAZI party's intolerable behavior during WW2.

What struck me, fortunately I was born in the US during the War, was his lack of emotion during the interview. His comments about the Waffen SS iindicated to me that after all these years, he still looks at them as idols, the best of Germany's fighting forces, which took on the most dangerous assignments and thus suffered the most casualies.

He said he was just a youth, inspired by Hitler's answers to Germany's many problems, many of which were long in coming..the treaty that ended WW1, Germany's young life as a nation, the horrible unemployment. He was critical of Europe's colonial past forgetfullness, while Germans after WW2 and to this day, are reminded of it outside the country. I thought he was implying that the world has been unfair to Germany.

He said George Bush lied about Iraq thus dragging the US into the war.

Funny, how in one breath he could admire Hitler, who never hid his anti-Semitism, yet condemn an American President for actions which brought down one of the worst dictators since Hilter.

Somehow, his lack of emotion, lack of caring about all those innocent people who were slaughtered during WW2 in any real sense, his justifications for being an ardent NAZI, says it all about him, and the NAZI's goal of a "New World Order".

I am reminded of these past few days, when most likely two physicians, who were either studying or practicing in England, attempted to do what their oaths are trying to prevent, death. Looks like there will always be people like Gunther Grass...who talk a good talk., but are killers in their hearts for all the wrong reasons.

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