Do you read my posts? I suspect you don´t. I asked you a question, whether you read various newspapers on a daily basis. So you take your informations, news, from independant sources, right? You are an informed person. Well, the Germans in Nazi Germany got the propaganda from Goebbels. Listening to BBC (for the minority for whom BBC was available) was an offense, for which many went to prison. Oppressive regimes use to manipulate their citizens, look at Cuba, look at Iran or N Korea. Do you blame a 17 year old Iranian for supporting his president? I don´t. I blame the president and his regime. But not the 17 year old. But I guess, that´s too much of thinking, is it?
What I posted, which you did not read or respond to, was we may simply assume Grass was a foolish, brainwashed youth. But that doesn't explain his support for socialist totalitarian regimes the rest of his adult life, and intense dislike of the only Jewish state on the planet.