rushdie defends grass

[Otto]

Is there another photo?

I cannot recognize anything here:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/G%C3%BCnter_Grass_POW_record.jpg/180px-G%C3%BCnter_Grass_POW_record.jpg

The information about former soldiers is here:
http://www.dd-wast.de/

2006/8/18, Peter E. Zelz <pzelz at earthlink.net>:
> I checked out the Wikipedia site on Grass yesterday, and noticed they had a
> pic of his fingerprint card from when he was captured as a POW.  My Deutch
> is pretty rusty, but it looks to me as if it says on the card that he was
> in the Waffen SS.  Also indicates that he was in the SS Panzer Division
> Frundsberg.  I can't imagine this card has been hidden away for the last
> sixty years, so someone, somewhere has known about this for quite a while.
> Have to wonder why it's all just coming to the surface as an issue now.
> Odd.
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> > [Original Message]
> > From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
> > To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Date: 8/17/2006 23:51:02
> > Subject: Re: rushdie defends grass
> >
> > Günter's greater good
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> > Thursday August 17, 2006, The Guardian
> > http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1851652,00.html
> >
> > Yet I still wonder why it hasn't become public earlier.
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