February 17, 2006
The famous German writer and Nobel Prize laureate Günther Grass has likened the controversial Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad to anti-Semitic caricatures published in Nazi Germany 70 years ago. In an interview with the Portuguese magazine "Visão", Grass said that when looking at the cartoons, first published by the Danish newspaper "Jyllands-Posten", he was reminded of similar images in the Nazi newspaper "Der Stürmer", depicting Jews as evil. Grass accused "Jyllands-Posten" of consciously provoking the row because the paper had an extreme-right stance and harbored xenophobic attitudes.
