Growing storm in Germany as anti-Nazi novelist admits he was in SS

NOBEL Prize-winning German novelist Guenter Grass is facing a growing storm of criticism following his admission that he served in the Waffen SS during World War II.

Yesterday, the head of Germany’s main Jewish organisation attacked him for waiting decades to reveal that he had served during World War II in the Waffen SS, the Nazi’s dreaded paramilitary force.

Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said the admission negated Mr Grass’s longtime criticisms of German politics and society for not adequately dealing with the Nazi past.