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What wartime secret did Nobel laureate Günter Grass conceal for 60 years before revealing it in a 2006 memoir?
Answer
That he had served in the Waffen-SS
Grass admitted in his 2006 memoir 'Peeling the Onion' that as a teenager he had been conscripted into the Waffen-SS, a fact he had kept hidden for decades and which sparked calls to revoke his Nobel Prize.
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Günter Grass won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999, but in 2006 revealed he'd hidden his Nazi SS membership for 60 years—sparking calls to revoke his award.
Other options people guess
- That he had deserted the German army
- That he had worked as a Gestapo informant
- That he had commanded a concentration camp
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- nobel-prize
- controversy
- world-war-ii
- memoir
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