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Submitted by A.Goldman, Aug 25, 2007 12:50

I find your comments far more profound than this "Open Letter".

I will say that Grass's moral high ground from which he has fired many shots over the years has been destroyed.

However, Gunter Grass's life-long examination of the German peoples experience through the Nazi period and its conscience since, has been invaluable. This, his most important contribution, is unblemished.

Should we in America spit on the graves of those confederate soldiers of our own Civil War as defenders of an abominable institution? Many of them children. Ah, how easy it is to judge from the present day!

Permit me a completely unsubstantiated suggestion. Would this Mr.Johnson or myself as a 16 year old in the orgy of Nazi Germany have had more wisdom than Mr.Grass? Not many 16 year olds do.

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My father was an American veteran of the war, and though he died in 1994 still deeply troubled by his... [MORE]	Robert Leibold	Mar 3, 2008 10:45
There is not enough evidence in Johnson's denunciation of Gunter Grass to show he was involved in any atrocities. Grass... [MORE]	John H Fysh	Sep 10, 2007 02:08
Greetings For Guenter Grass to conceal his SS Status in the third Reich may be difficult to understand by those who did... [MORE]	peter thoss (1935)	Jul 4, 2007 03:05
This is such a disgraceful review and commentary upon a man who has spent his life in a sort of... [MORE]	A. Aleksander	Jul 3, 2007 06:55
I find your comments far more profound than this "Open Letter". I will say that Grass's moral high ground from which...	A.Goldman	Aug 25, 2007 12:50
In this weeks issue, Grass writes "How I Spent the War." In reading it I couldn't help but reflect on... [MORE]	Fred Bender	Jun 7, 2007 12:21
Gunther Grass was interviewed on PBS on July 2, 2007. He referred a few times to Germany's barbarison and the NAZI... [MORE]	Dave Levy	Jul 3, 2007 06:20

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