[thomasz]

He didn't work for the STASI, he volunteered for the Waffen SS.

> Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). In May 1945, after service as a soldier in the Waffen SS, he was taken prisoner by U.S. forces and released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, he began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction he frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass

[pgeorgi]

The current official version is that he volunteered for submarine service, was rejected there, then drafted into Waffen SS.

[Ralfp]

> He didn't work for the STASI, he volunteered for the Waffen SS.

He volounteered for the Kriegsmarine, but that was in 1944 when Reich was in full retreat in the east, and so he was pulled into Waffen SS ranks instead.