Peeling the Onion

Günter Grass · 2006 CE · Narrative Non-fiction · German · Contemporary

A memoir that runs from a Danzig childhood to the publication of The Tin Drum, and discloses for the first time that the author served in the Waffen-SS at seventeen. The admission, after decades as Germany's moral voice, set off a national controversy over memory and confession.

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