Now Look Who Served in the SS!

It is delicious to find out that lefty German author Günther Grass spent time in the Waffen SS at the end of World War II. That is what Kate Connolly reports.

Asked why he was breaking his silence after more than 60 years, Grass said: "It had to come out finally." He added: "It will stain me forever."

Of course, Grass didn’t volunteer for the Waffen SS; he was drafted. Still, since “[t]hroughout his career he has famously criticised those unwilling to deal with Germany's Nazi past,” one might innocently wonder a little why Grass has hidden his own “Nazi past.”

The entire left-wing campaign to make a special example of the Germans has always been drenched in hypocrisy. What, after all, can be so repellent about an ideology of race hatred when an ideology of class hatred is apparently a fine and noble thing? Class hate, race hate: what’s the difference?

Lefties have been apologizing for nearly a century for murderous regimes that are devoted to the elimination of the hated bourgeoisie. So why should they make such a big deal about a bunch of Germans who wanted to kill Jews?

(Actually we know why. The theory and practice of National Socialism was always uncomfortably close to the theory and practice of Marxian Socialism. Lefties early on found it necessary to draw a bright line between the two.)

Anyway, now we know. Lefty Günther Grass is a hypocrite. What a surprise.