German writer Gunter Grass admitted he made a mistake in not disclosing his service in the Waffen SS until recently. In a letter to the mayor of his hometown of Gdansk, now part of Poland, Grass wrote, “It’s only now, with age, that I have found a suitable way of talking about it from a wider perspective.”
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