has Grunter Grass been exposed?

Question

his nazi past has been exposed.

Answer 1

He has exposed himself in an interview about his forthcoming autobiography which is going to be called While Peeling the Onion (Grass title par excellence). He wasn't a simple soldiers, he was a member of the Waffen-SS - one of the cruelest groups the world has ever seen. He was not older than seventeen when he joined them - the problem is that there were seventeen year old boys and girls who were members of the resistance - you can't explain/excuse everything with the delusion of youth. To be a member of the Waffen-SS you had to be 100% Nazi. He also said, he did not feel guilty at that time and that he did not fire a single shot (which sounds familiar: I did not have sex with that woman, I did not inhale, etc.).
He came out very late with this confession (61 years after the war ended) and everyone knows that his primal aim for long had been to win the Nobel Price for literature, he would surely not have been awarded with this price if the committee had known about his past.
Lech Walesa today said he should be expired from being a citizen of honour of Warzawa. And a Czech literature committee is considering to strip him of the Karel Capek award.
What makes me wonder is how he was able to keep this a secret for so many years - and how many of that kind are still out there!

Answer 2

Oh come on! Gunther Glass's The Tin Drum won the Nobel Prize for Literature and is an anti-war protest. The closest he ever came to the Nazis was being impressed to fight as a simple solider on the Eastern front.
Shame for spreading spurious charges picked up god knows where.

Answer 3

Why? Did you take his picture?