article_snippet.sent: But Grass, an outspoken public figure, has sparked controversy in the last decade.
article_snippet.sent: Three years ago, Günter Grass drew controversy again, when German published a poem in a German newspaper discouraging Germany from selling more submarines to Israel.
article_snippet.sent: In "What must be said," Günter Grass accused Germany of selling weapons to a potential aggressor out of guilt over the Holocaust.
article_snippet.sent: Günter Grass said Israel could use nuclear weapons to kill masses of Iranians.
article_snippet.sent: Israel invoked a visa ban, and then-Interior Minister Eli Yishai declared Günter Grass a "persona non grata" in Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported.
article_snippet.sent: On Monday, Salman Rushdie tweeted about Günter Grass death:  
article_snippet.sent: As recently as March, Grass criticized the anti-Islam movement PEGIDA, Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West.
highlights_snippet.sent: Grass stoked controversy with Grass admission to being a member of the Waffen SS .