• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Nazi apologia. It doesn’t matter how many books he wrote or how good they were.

    Here’s how I read it: His Nazi past wasn’t discovered until after receiving literary awards, which was embarrassing to the literati, so they tried to whitewash him.

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      1 year ago

      Go and actually read about him! He was never proud of being an SS member, but never made a secret about it (hard to do as a POW of the Americans).