1: Grass focused in much of his work on learning from the horror of war and genocide by exploring motifs from his childhood city of Danzig , which is now Gdansk , Poland . 2: During the Nazi era , ethnic Poles and Jews were persecuted and deported from the multicultural city , at a time when they faced the possibility of mass murder . 3: Grass tried in his literature to come to grips with World War II and the Nazi era .
1: the horror of war and genocide 2: the Nazi era 3: World War II and the Nazi era