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WAR AND REMEMBRANCE.

The New Yorker

| September 18, 2006 | Buruma, Ian | COPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

"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 ...

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