 They leave on a journey in the postwar West Germany, where they systematically attack former Nazis who are now posing as respectable officials throughout the country.Grass's style frequently parodies Martin Heidegger's arcane philosophical syntax in "Being and Time", which one of the teenage protagonists likes to poke fun at.The years from the prewar to the postwar era are presented in "Dog Years" through the perspective of three different narrators, a team directed by Amsel — alias Brauxel — who makes scarecrows in man's image.