Nazi German Bunker in my Garden: "[...] the previous owner told us that there was a tunnel built by the germans during WW2. He said it was big enough to drive into, [...]
So I traced some WW2 reconnaisance photos of the property, which appeared to show the entrance road to my bunker. [...] And that's where the quest began....." (
Original thread here, first link is to condensed but more readable blog.)
posted by orthogonality
on Jun 29, 2008 -
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Winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, a peace activist who opposed reunification for fear Germany might once again war against its neighbors, ghost-writer of Willy Brandt's speeches,
author of the great fabulist history of World War II and postwar Germany,
The Tin Drum, and of
My Century, a novel of one hundred chapters, one for each year of the last century, a man considered
part of the artistic movement known in German as "Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung" or "coming to terms with the past", Günter Grass belatedly admits the history he expunged from his personal narrative: his service as a member of the
10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg of the Waffen-SS.
In an interview with the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Grass
explained his service would
stain him forever, but that only after the war
did he feel ashamed of having been in the
Waffen-SS:
for me, because I am sure of my recollection, the Waffen SS was nothing frightful, but rather an elite unit that they sent where things were hot, and which, as people said about it, had the heaviest losses.
posted by orthogonality
on Aug 12, 2006 -
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