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"History, or, to be more precise, the history we Germans have repeatedly mucked up, is a clogged toilet," the narrator in Gunter Grass's most recent novel, "Crabwalk," says. "We flush and flush, but the shit keeps rising." Now the author, a Nobel laureate widely regarded as "the conscience of Germany"--a man who has regularly sermonized against the forces of reaction and the corruptions of power--is up to his neck in it himself.
Just last month, Grass revealed something that he had been keeping to himself during half a century in public life: that he was once a member of the Waffen-S.S. Grass, who was born in 1927, never pretended to have escaped the war ...