article_snippet.sent: During the Nazi era, ethnic Poles and Jews were persecuted and deported from the multicultural city, at a time when ethnic Poles and Jews faced the possibility of mass murder.
article_snippet.sent: In 2006, German confessed that at the age of 15, in 1943, German volunteered for military service in Germany's war of aggression and ended up in the notoriously bloody Waffen SS.
article_snippet.sent: A year later, German penned a detailed account in The New Yorker on how German spent German war years up to the death of German dictator Adolf Hitler.
article_snippet.sent: German commentators pilloried German as subconsciously anti-Semitic.