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April 10, 2012

Israel-Iran, Holocaust Perverted in Poem

Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg

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Grass is a former member of the Waffen SS, and being a former member of the Waffen SS means having to say you're sorry. Unfortunately, all the harshness directed against Grass after he revealed this fact in 2006 -- six decades afterward -- seems to have made him angry at the SS's victims. Thus, our poem.

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TAGGED: Israel, Germany, Iran, Gunter Grass, Guenter Grass

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