ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the Grass Gunter's article in The New York Times on 7 January 1990. He was born in 1927 in Danzig, is Germany's best known novelist. Gunter's includes The Tin Drum and Dog Years, and mark an important point in Germany's critical engagement with her past. Day by day, the people of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) are struggling for greater freedom and razing the bastions of a hated system by nonviolent means. This is an event unique in German history a successful revolutionary movement. Economically exploited by the Soviet Union, confronted by Soviet tanks during the workers' uprising of June 1953 and finally trapped inside walls the citizens of the G. D. R. have had to pay, and as proxies for the citizens of the Federal Republic, to pay and pay again. It was not we who bore the chief burden for a world war that all Germans lost.
