Hunger of the flesh ; Books Review ++ The memoirs of Nobel prizewinner Gonter Grass caused an uproar in Germany with their revelations of his service in the SS. Their publication here gives us a chance to learn why he broke his silence after so long

From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: June 17, 2007| Author: REVIEWED BY TOM ROSENTHAL | Copyright information

Peeling the Onion

By Gonter Grass

Harvill Secker [pound]18.99

Gonter Grass published his memoirs in Germany last year and created a worldwide furore, in which his account of his doings in the Nazi era, including his membership of the Hitler Youth and service in the Waffen SS pretty much took centre stage in the media. The commentariat tended to focus almost exclusively on whether he was or was not a Nazi, why this foremost excoriator of the wartime Nazis and the still...

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