TV's 'Derrick' served in Nazi Waffen SS: report

[Ed Anger]

Nice pistol. 

[Queequeg]

Were the Waffen SS really that much more guilty of warcrimes than the Wehrmacht.  It's not like he's Gunter Grass and has been criticizing the entire post-Nazi German project from a position of supposed moral superiority. 

[Malthus]

Absolutely appalling!
http://www.diplomattitle.com/derrick-banned-from-german-public-television-because-of-his-ss-past/

Derrick banned from German public television because of his SS past
May 2nd, 2013 Comments Off


"ZDF no plans to broadcast episodes of Derrick", whether on ZDF or cable channels neo ZDF, ZDF and ZDF Kultur info, told AFP the spokesman for the chain, Peter Bogenschötz . "ZDF is surprised and shocked to learn that Horst Tappert belonged to the Waffen-SS," he also said. ZDF has produced more than 280 episodes of the series Derrick between 1973 and 1997, and sold in 102 countries. A full replay of the series began in early 2011 on ZDF and its subsidiaries. The last episode aired by the group's latest adventure phlegmatic investigator goes back to April 1 on channel ZDF neo.

In late April, the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published an article, based on the work of sociologist Jörg Becker, fell almost by chance on documents and evidence proving that Horst Tappert entered the Waffen-SS in 1943. Born in 1923 and died in 2008, the actor, known worldwide for this role, was part of a tank regiment embarked on the Russian front. These revelations also prompted the Dutch channel Omroep Max to cancel the replay of twenty episodes scheduled for July, confirmed a spokesman for the group, Sanne Rademaker. "We're not going to honor an actor who lied about such a past," explained the director of the channel, Jan Slagter, a Dutch radio.

Today Europe er. Germany, tomorrow the World?

PS: so reruns already cancelled in the Netherlands but not before a month at least in France. Yet no proof Horst was a volunteer for the Totenkopf division.

My god, he looks *exactly* like my father in law.

It's uncanny. 

[Habbaku]

Was there a non-Nazi Waffen SS?

[Zanza]

Were the Waffen SS really that much more guilty of warcrimes than the Wehrmacht.

Yes. While there were certainly many units in the Wehrmacht that committed war crimes, it is hard to find a single Waffen SS unit that didn't commit war crimes.