Krishna Winston, professor of German Studies, chair of the German Studies Department, and coordinator of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, holds her translation of Crabwalk by Nobel-Prize-winning author Günter Grass. Posted 05/23/05 In 1956, Richard and Clara Winston left their farm in Vermont to spend some time in Switzerland. Their two daughters, Krishna, 12, and Justina, 10, were enrolled in Swiss public school. They knew only a few words of German. There were little boys who brought their gym shoes to school in cloth bags, Krishna Winston recalls. As we were walking home, they would swing those bags by…