David Frankfurter

Draft

http://jbuff.com/c061412.htm

I found the tone of one passage from above surprising,

A number of books and one movie have been made to commemorate the Gustloff disaster. The Germans, unwilling to this day to admit their barbaric murder of six million Jews, find it convenient to make the murder of Wilhelm Gustloff and the sinking of the “Gustloff” great tragedies in their history. Yet, a recent survey of German attitudes towards the slaughter of millions of innocent victims reveals that only 30% of Germans find it necessary to admit to these cruelties. The vast majority remember only the Gustloff disaster, which they brought on by all the crimes they committed in the name of racial purity, Aryan superiority, and arrogance.

So  this is my first encounter with a jewish site.  But otherwise I got info T wanted on Frankfurter,    So what did Grass do?   I learnt a lot as I made sense of every bit. But no mention anywhere of suicidal nature of Frankfurter. But Grass had not mentioned Olympics.  Let me see if T can get any info on russian pogroms of jews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Jewish_pogroms_in_the_Russian_Empire