... , in his novel "Crabwalk", rewrites, revises and revisits the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. Grass chooses an indirect, but subtle way, to communicate the real essence of Nazi Germany through, persons, places, objects and symbols. In fact, the plot, setting and characters in the novel combine to generate the whole process of historical revisionism. In "Crabwalk", Grass has ... presented history as a kaleidoscope creating different patterns from every view. The historical event of the sinking of The Gustloff becomes a prism through which the attitudes of three generations of Ge...

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