Amir Taheri has an interesting take on Grass' recent revelation of his Waffen SS past.
Money quote: "[Grass] recalls the moment when GIs arrive at the camp where Grass was a war prisoner. Grass says that one GI, a white man from Virginia would not directly talk to another GI, a black man, driving a truck. In the truck taking Grass and other prisoners to the camp, the white Virginian, whom Grass describes as 'a good man but a bit stupid,' asks Grass to relay orders to the American black driver. ...
"Grass writes: I cannot say I was shocked, but, suddenly, I discovered racism."
Imagine that. It took a Virginia peckerwood to introduce a storm-trooper to racism.
