Günter Grass - "How I Spent the War"
New Yorker has a lengthy piece by Günter Grass titled "How I Spent the War". Grass created a storm in 2006 when he admitted that he was a member of the Nazi Waffen-SS, after 60 years of "Germany's most ardent advocate of full disclosure and penance"
When? Why? Since I do not know the exact date and cannot recall the by then unstable climate of the war, or list its hot spots from the Arctic to the Caucasus, all I can do for now is string together the circumstances that probably triggered and nourished my decision to enlist. No mitigating epithets allowed. What I did cannot be put down to youthful folly. No pressure from above. Nor did I feel the need to assuage a sense of guilt, at, say, doubting the Führer’s infallibility, with my zeal to volunteer.
Comments are closed for this post.