Gunter Grass Admits to Serving in Hitler's Waffen SS

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My first crack at GR was in 1980/81, living in a tiny trailer at the northern renaissance faire in Novato CA. There was an arthouse cinema in San Rafael at the time and I recall seeing the film of "The Tin Drum", which somehow managed to get intertwined with all that stuff happening at "Der Platz" and Nordhausen. 
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From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
> 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
> >
>