Kosovo War Cheerleader: German Author Grass Served In Hitler's SS http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2309677,00.html
Associated Press August 11, 2006 I served in Hitler's SS, Günter Grass says Gunter Grass, the renowned German novelist, admitted yesterday that he had served in the Waffen SS, the combat arm of Adolf Hitlers paramilitary forces, during the Second World War. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung today publishes an interview with the Nobel Prize winner in which he explained why he decided to make the confession. It weighed on me. My silence over all these years is one of the reasons I wrote this book. It had to come out, finally. Herr Grass said that after the war he was ashamed of having been in the Waffen SS: At the time, no [but] later this feeling of shame burdened me. The 78-year-old writer made the admission in his autobiography, Peeling the Onion, which will be published next month. He is regarded as the literary spokesman for the generation of Germans that grew up in the Nazi era and survived the war. Herr Grass won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999 for works including his 1959 novel, The Tin Drum, made into an Oscar-winning film in 1979. =============== Group Moderator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] page at http://magazine.sorabia.net for more informations about current situation in Serbia http://www.sorabia.net Slusajte GLAS SORABIJE nas talk internet-radio (Serbian Only) http://radio.sorabia.net Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
