Yikes, I read at The Corner at NRO the following mind-blowing information:
"I learn the news that Günter Grass was a member of the SS. ... I'm hardly surprised. Indeed, Grass' transgression is easier to forgive than, say, George Bernard Shaw's or Heidegger's (assuming he's telling the truth about not committing atrocities). Grass was just a teenager when he joined Hitler's killing machine. Shaw, Heidegger and a shocking number of the Western left's intellectual heroes were grown ups when they became enamored with Hitler. Gertrude Stein — a Jew! — led an effort to award Hitler the Nobel Peace Prize in 1938."
Eeeeww. I never liked reading Gertrude Stein or hearing about her salons in Paris. I like her even less now. I'm oddly comforted that there have been apologists for murderers for some time. Jimmy Carter is really nothing new. And that the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to Carter and Yasser Arafat seems a little less surprising now, given the possibility that Hitler could have been awarded it.
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