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Re:Why Kundera Never Went Home by WeylandYutani on Thursday August 03, 2023 @07:49AM (#36984500)
Germany and many other European countries did have these scandals in the 60s and 70s when the new generation asked uncomfortable questions about what their parents did in the war.
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Re:Why Kundera Never Went Home by a_bonobo on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:47AM (#36985142)
There's an interesting detail around Gunter Grass; he was part of the big literary voices asking the uncomfortable questions, which was part of his success in the 1960s and 1970s. Long after that success, in 2006, he revealed that he was in the Waffen-SS himself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass#Waffen-SS_re...
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Re:Why Kundera Never Went Home by everybodyknows on Thursday August 03, 2023 @10:50AM (#36986759)
According to his account, the alternative to the SS was a punishment unit:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/06/04/how-i-spent-th...

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