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In reply to the discussion: Israel bars German author over poem critical of its nuclear arsenal [View all]PavePusher
(15,374 posts)70. Cites to an internet post, and an Isreali newspaper...
with no link or reference to scholarly research.... doth not convincing evidence make.
I'll note that belonging to the Hitler Youth was the German equivalent of the U.S./British Boy Scouts (although far more government-sanctioned and supported) and not a very reliable indicator of future political affiliation.
More noteably, you haven't been able to reference any post-war Nazi ties.
Quite frankly, your writing so far would fail any high school class I was ever in. Good luck with that.
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yes Günter Glass did serve in an SS Panzer unit in 1944 when he was 17 didn't he?
azurnoir
Apr 2012
#8
So are all IDF members lifelong Irgun terrorists by your asinine and simple logic?
Robeysays
Apr 2012
#12
If someone was in Irgun and seems to advocate for Irgun positions decades later.
Kurska
Apr 2012
#25
Doesnt matter. In the end its their country and they can say who can enter it and who cant just like
cstanleytech
Apr 2012
#52
You just accused me of promoting something unspeakable, because I disagreed with you about a poem.
Ken Burch
Apr 2012
#77
Is this why so many good authors were repeatedly blocked from publication in the US?
Trillo
Apr 2012
#4
Then we should Bar all Israelis who severed in the IDF for there life long Irgun Affiliation.
Robeysays
Apr 2012
#13
It's frustrating to me that there seems to be no distinction in the minds of some
XemaSab
Apr 2012
#21
This guy was Waffen SS. Ideological apples rarely fall far from their ideological roots.
Kurska
Apr 2012
#27
Hitler youth, volunteered for service, holds anti-semitic beliefs decades later.
Kurska
Apr 2012
#54
No I'm saying it is harder to prove as objective fact than membership in an organization.
Kurska
Apr 2012
#67
Israel’s policy endangers world peace’ — Jakob Augstein and Gideon Levy have Gunter Grass’s back
JohnyCanuck
Apr 2012
#32
If you're threatened by a poem, you are clearly and unequivocally WRONG. End of story.
saras
Apr 2012
#33