[muawiyah]

Naw, the Nobel Prize for literature committee knows what it was doing.

No way Grass kept this Waffen SS stuff secret all those years.

That's one of the reasons really honest folks are better off never getting a Nobel for anything.

[PzLdr]

Grass [by my calculations] was 17 in 1941. That's TWO years before FRUNDSBURG was formed. And I don't think he could have been drafted, under German law, into the Waffen SS in 1941.

[wolf78]

The real irony is: The US administration knew of Grass's SS membership all the time, as he was a POW.



Grass's offical record: "W-SS" meaning "Waffen SS".