MÁS SOBRE la hipocresía de Gunter Grass: el Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung publica unas cartas que Grass había escrito en los años 70 a Karl Schiller, el político del partido socialdemócrata alemán, presionándolo para que admitiera públicamente que había pertenecido a la Sturmabteilung, la organización paramilitar juvenil que fue clave en el ascenso de Hitler al poder.

Dear Karl Schiller, once more I would like to remind you of our discussion and ask you outright to speak openly at the next opportunity – and I mean publicly – about your political past during the Nazi era. The postwar generation knows nothing but placation, and inadmissible playing down of the Federal Chancellor's past, for instance, with all the talk that he was a member of the NSDAP neither out of personal conviction nor as an opportunist. I would hope you would openly admit your mistake. That would be a relief for you, and at the same time it would have the beneficial effect of a cleansing rain.

Eso escribía el héroe de las letras y conciencia crítica de la biempensantía europea.

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