Gunther Grass served in the Waffen SS...
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europ ... index.html
Heil Gunther
I've read the article David - 'The New York Times' and 'Washington Post' have also done a couple of good pieces.
I wasn't passing any opinion about the man, there are plenty of 'experts' quite happy to do that - It was the revelation that interested me - The real events will only be ever truly known by one man, but whatever he did will not alter one word in his books, although people will now be reading fresh meaning into them.
He did well to keep it secret for so long - Good luck to him. There were thousands of SS troops, I can't believe that they were all Nazi fanatics.
cheers
Barrie
I wasn't passing any opinion about the man, there are plenty of 'experts' quite happy to do that - It was the revelation that interested me - The real events will only be ever truly known by one man, but whatever he did will not alter one word in his books, although people will now be reading fresh meaning into them.
He did well to keep it secret for so long - Good luck to him. There were thousands of SS troops, I can't believe that they were all Nazi fanatics.
cheers
Barrie