Günter Grass on His Nazi Past (July 2, 2007) | Charlie Rose

[@rishabhaniket1952]

Refreshing to see a non pretentious, honest artist speaking so candidly and admitting his mistakes.

[@henryseidel5469]

His 'mistakes' were not worse than the mistakes young American soldiers made in Vietnam. What mistakes can you make at the age of seventeen when conscripted ??

[@polad60]

Brave and Honest answers....

[@holidayholly7446]

I didn't realize he spoke English so well.

[@henryseidel5469]

Nice to hear him giving honest answers from his own personal point of view. Grass has always been an honest man, not a follower of ideological tendencies or some virtual political correctness. Maybe that is why he got the Nobel Prize.

[@ramdularsingh1435]

Grass is a really really great literary heavyweight. He spoke so nice an English I didn't know.....

[@dickvarga6908]

he was part of an anti aircraft artilary unit until age 17 when he was drafted into the waffen ss, he was not a volunteer.

[@KronosArF]

I don't know that Günter Grass spoke this good english. But he had an nice german Accent as well….

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[@NickVenture1]

I knew this man years ago. In those days he was not able to talk like this. Now I see this video for the first time. I understand his attitude in this interview. It's ok. But I still disagree with his attitude in those days when he kept the main part covered-up.

[@paweltrawicki2200]

You are a great writer,the other part ii leave up to God.

[@TejON.3]

Gunter Grass... Great Man!!!...definitely

[@joshuabreault1301]

Jims dad

[@henryseidel5469]

Grass did not 'join' the SS but had to go there as a conscripted soldier when he was seventeen. He was born in 1927, by the way. How could he be a Natsi ??

[@mautoban66]

1:55 In the Moment when it happens the stupid majority will always consider itsself on the right side. They will indeed fight against every warnung and will not be able ti listen to any logic Argument.

[@uhuhuuuhhh9883]

When did you believe ?Ha Shem thunders from Heaven .

[@MarkHoward660]

A great man , wonderful human being , He was on the right side

[@rdmountford3132]

He was a proud Waffen SS man until 1945....then he fell very silent

[@michellelist6354]

He turned 18 in October of 1945. For how long and from what age was he a “proud Waffen SS man”?

[@swagkachu3784]

You and me wouldve been too. He got the full exposure since the age of 6

[@suchendnachwahrheit9143]

He was 17 in April 1945. Hardly a man.

[@lindaboyce8805]

he was in the SS and he didn't know???????????? BULL !

[@DavidAKZ]

linda boyce He served as a teen-aged drafted soldier in the Waffen SS starting in 1944, and was taken prisoner by U.S. forces in May 1945 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass

[@georgemalouf4298]

linda boyce Even if he did know, was that his guilt?

[@henryseidel5469]

linda boyce He became a conscripted soldier at the age of 17 for the last days of the war and got some uniform. By the way: Wernher von Braun was also in the SS. He just left his uniform somewhere by the Baltic Sea before he took his scientific papers to the United States to make a good career.

[@Epoch11]

@henryseidel5469 Verner von Braun was a Nazi Criminal who oversaw Jews who work themselves to death in order to construct his V2 rocket program. The Americans took him in knowing full well that he was a Nazi and that he saw people being killed and had participated in it. When someone would die he would just request more people. If someone beat your mother with a stick, but then claim it happened 10 years ago and we should forget about that because it's so long in the past would you accept that explanation?