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Kept home from school, he becomes an unblinking observer of the world around him--his mother's adultery, the rise of Nazism, Kristallnacht , the invasion of Poland, the ravages of war, and after the war, the "economic miracle."
If The Tin Drum has a negative take on Nazism, it is expressed obliquely, through explosive bursts of irreverent language, and by dint of the fact that, in 1959, Grass talks about things such as Kristallnacht --something few other German writers did at the time, at least not so boldly.
"All sections of the population," Bankier further reports, "reacted with shock" to Kristallnacht.
Significantly, he adduces not a jot of counterevidence for his novel claim that only "some Germans" opposed Kristallnacht.
In assessing the popular German reaction to Nazi violence generally and Kristallnacht in particular, I quoted Goldhagen's authoritative scholarly source, Israeli historian David Bankier, as well as Kershaw: