Submitted by peter thoss (1935), Jul 4, 2007 03:05

Greetings

For Guenter Grass to conceal his SS Status in the third Reich may be difficult to understand by those

who did not live through the Nazi Time in Germany themselves.

I, for one put my Hitler Youth Pass into the Fire , the Day, I received it, but I would not hold

Guenter Grass to the same Standard, simply, because, I still meet SS Members in Canada, who have mended their ways and were it not for their Concealment many Years ago, they would have never made it to this Country.

Some of them are still deported today.

Right or wrong, I subscribe to time-sensitive reasoning and to granting People , like Guenter Grass the

Opportunity to do some good which they could not have accomplished, had they revealed their SS Status.

Now, this does not mean, that a general Amnesty should be applied to all former SS Members. rather it means, that a person, who has not burdened their Concience with the usual Atrocities with wich the

Waffen SS is justly associated with, has the opportunity to re-shape their Lives in a meaningful Manner

particularily, when Guenter Grass has demonstrated clearly, that he falls under the pardonable Category.

I hope, that we can bury the Spirit of Revenge and trust, that those responsible for the Hitler crimes will

not escape their just Dues in the final End.

As for Guenter Grass, after watching his Interview on TV, I would say, he deserves the Chance he got.

Peter Thoss ( now Canadian, but a native German during the Nazi Time with a clean Slate)

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