Peeling the Onion

…Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (2006; Peeling the Onion), caused widespread controversy, with some arguing that it undercut his moral authority. He had previously claimed that he had been drafted into an air defense unit in 1944.

…Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (Peeling the Onion), in which he revealed that he had been part of the Hitler Youth movement as a teen, was refused as a volunteer for submarine duty in the German military at age 15, and was called up to the Waffen-SS (the elite military…