The Tin Drum Resources

The interesting parts of Grass don't end with our Brain Snacks. Check out this site to plunge even deeper into this man's amazing life.

Who better to tell us about the author than the people who decided to give him a million bucks.

This German film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1979. It also shared the highest honor at the Cannes Film Festival (the Palme D'Or) with Apocalypse Now.

Here's Grass's description of his time in the German Army and Waffen-SS.

It looks like Grass got himself into a lot of hot water over a poem he wrote in 2012 criticizing Israel's foreign policy.

In this public interview, Günter is candid about his involvement with the German army and the Nazi party during World War II.

In this interview, Grass sits down with interviewer Elizabeth Gaffney to discuss his life in literature and his often controversial politics.

The good folks at the Nobel Foundation give Grass the last Nobel Prize of the 20th Century. How's that for a legacy? Keep an eye out for the absolutely humongous man standing next to him at the end of the clip.

Just so you know, the movie is every bit as weird as the book.

It's just about impossible to get any audio on this guy for free. But here's a handy link to the audiobook for The Tin Drum.

Grass tells all in an interview with the BBC World Book Group in which he reveals that he loves to eat eels and insists there's no symbolism in The Tin Drum.

Seriously, do a Google image search of this guy and just try to find a picture of him without his pipe. Guy treats that thing like a tin drum.

Here's a rare pic of Grass while he was with the German Forces in World War II. He's the one on the right, and he's only 16 years old.

The beautiful tower in Danzig that Oskar climbed.

Destroyed in September 1939

These guys were later shot and buried in Saspe Cemetery.

These folks are revered as Polish heroes. They were.