BLACK DEEDS FROM THE PAST

Remember Lech Walesa. The trade union leader who formed his own political party and played a key role in ushering electoral reforms in Polish politics. This famous Gdansk citizen (Walesa was born in Gdansk,the largest seaport in Poland) is asking another son of Gdansk (none other than Gunter Grass) to give up his honorary citizenship. This comes after Grass, a famous writer and Nobel laureate confessed to being an ex-SS Nazi.

The revelation by the Nobel prize winner, now approaching his 80th birthday, has shocked Germany's literary and cultural world. It was Grass first and foremost who insisted the Germans "come clean" about their history and that his own generation should not try to pose as "victims" of Hitler's National Socialist ideology.
Now the great advocate of facing unpalatable truths has lived up to his own standards, but a little late.
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Grass now says that, although he had told the truth to his wife, those he deceived included his children and his biographer Michael Jurgs, with whom he spent countless hours apparently going over the minutiae of his life in the latter years of the Third Reich.