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  • Guenter Grass was in Waffen-SS

    08/13/2006 8:36:33 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 42 replies · 3,126+ views
    BBC ^ | Friday, 11 August 2006
    Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass, author of the great anti-Nazi novel The Tin Drum, has admitted serving in the Waffen-SS. He told a German newspaper he had been recruited at the age of 17 into an SS tank division and served in Dresden. Previously it was only known he had served as a soldier and was wounded and taken prisoner by US forces. Speaking before the publication of his war memoirs, he said his silence over the years had "weighed" upon him. "My silence over all these years is one of the reasons I wrote this book [Peeling Onions],"...