Günter Grass Dies at 87; Writer Pried Open Germany’s Past but Hid His Own (Published 2015)

Günter Grass in 2005. The publication in 1959 of the “The Tin Drum” propelled him to the forefront of postwar literature.Credit...Dominik Sadowski/Agencja Gazeta, via Reuters Günter Grass, the German novelist, social critic and Nobel Prize winner whom many called his country’s moral conscience but who stunned Europe when he revealed in 2006 that he had been a member of the Waffen-SS during World W