Germany has been in an uproar since Günter Grass, 78, Nobel Prize-winning author and "bleeding heart icon of the German left" (Britain's The Sunday Times), revealed in an interview last Saturday before publication of his autobiography that he was a member of the Waffen SS at 17. Grass had previously said he was a conscripted helper in an antiaircraft unit in the final months of World War II. Die Mutter Teresa -- 'ne Prostituierte?! So ging es dem Land, Als der G.G. gestand: "Ich war Mitglied der Waffen-SS." He'd hounded his nation: "Come clean, closet Nazis!" His own guilt, it seems, Drove him to extremes, But by no means, in truth, to excess. jwnmbx