German literary figure Gunther Gräss recalls his days as a young conscript into the Waffen SS: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/06/04/how-i-spent-the-war

German literary figure Gunther Gräss recalls his days as a young conscript into the Waffen SS: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/06/04/how-i-spent-the-war http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/06/04/how-i-spent-the... One of his peers finds the strength to resist -- and the witnessed struggle is a heartbreak.