Gunter Grass Admits to Serving in Hitler's Waffen SS

[Otto]

The trouble isn't the fact in itself but the fact that he hasn't told
this in the decades after the war.

Now his reputation is gone forever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_SS_Panzer_Division_Frundsberg
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,druck-431491,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,druck-431436,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,druck-431560,00.html

Should I worry that my daughter shook this man's hand?

At least he admitted his Waffen-SS membership before telling lies in
his autobiography.

2006/8/14, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>:
> German Novelist Gunter Grass Admits to Serving in Hitler's Waffen SS
> Friday, August 11, 2006
>
> BERLIN  — German novelist Gunter Grass admitted in an interview that he
> served in the Waffen SS, the combat arm of Adolf Hitler's dreaded
> paramilitary forces, during World War II, a German newspaper reported
> Friday.
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208011,00.html
>