New names on the list of former NSDAP members

Joachim Güntner comments on a report in the Germany weekly "Focus" according to which Martin Walser, Dieter Hildebrandt and Siegfried Lenz joined the Nazi party (NSDAP) in 1944. "The appetite for sarcastic questions is involuntarily growing in proportion to the list of names of intellectuals who were members of the Nazi party but never mentioned the fact themselves. Proof that they either became members of the party or at least applied for membership has been provided over the past few years by historians Martin Broszat and Fritz Fischer, literary scientists Peter Wapnewski, Walter Jens and Walter Höllerer and literary critic Friedrich Sieburg... An interesting aspect is the chronology of the revelations. The first targets were big names in politics and finance, then came academics and now it's the authors' turn. So the research has fanned out to include 'non-state elements'."

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