also portrayed as being more than a little silly and absurd. The novel ends on a grim note as the last lines are: "It doesn't end. It will never end". In a critical 2002 review in Die Zeit, Thomas Schmitt rejected Grass's thesis of a "national taboo" about the memory of German victimization in the war, noting that the families of Germans who fled or were expelled after the war kept alive the memories of their lost homelands and that conservative German historians have always written much about the subject. However, Schmitt did accept that there were aspects of recent German history that made it difficult to incorporate the memory of German victimization into the memory of the past. Schmitt noted that the "68ers" as the generation who came of age in the late 1960s are known tended to point an accusing finger at their parents and grandparents for all the things that they did and did not do in the Nazi era, and thus were and still are adverse to accepting the image of their parents/grandparents as victims. Schmitt further pointed out that the cause of expellees were championed by the West German government under Konrad Adenauer, which rejected the Oder-Neisse line, but the Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt and the acceptance of the Oder-Neisse line in 1970 led to the West German state disallowing the expellees and their demands for the "right to a homeland". Schmitt noted that the expellee groups hurt their cause by their demands for a revanchist foreign policy aiming to take back parts of Poland that had once belonged to Germany, making the memory of their suffering difficult to incorporate into the memory of the past in a way that would be acceptable. For all these reasons, Schmitt felt that Crabwalk had come too late, and felt that it was unlikely to change the memory of the past in the way that Grass wanted. Through Schmitt felt that the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was indeed a terrible tragedy, he felt that some might draw too rash a conclusion, noting that on the day after the Wilhelm Gustloff went down, a death march ended in the same area. The SS forced the inmates of the Stutthof concentration camp outside of Danzig onto a death march that at ended with the survivors who reached the Baltic being shot down into the crashing waves. Schmitt noted that