Germany launches a COMIC BOOK on the Holocaust

www.reuters.com
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[edit on 2/1/2008 by Gools]

Oh boy...This should be sure to ruffle some feathers. Although it's supposed to be educational, making a fictional comic book in the country that spawned the atrocities might not be the wisest move.

www.reuters.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

What's wrong here?

The fact that it's a comic book?

Should Germany just ignore the whole thing and NOT teach it's kids about what happened?

Have you read the materials?
Has anyone?
Why is this news?

I don't see the problem.
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[edit on 2/1/2008 by Gools]

reply to post by Gools

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Comic books are for entertainment. I think they could have picked a more serious venue. Brochures, history books, etc...I just don't know that it's done in the best taste to turn it into a comic book. I guess we'll have to wait and see what the material is like to make the final decision on it.

reply to post by DimensionalDetective

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Oh, I don't know...

Ever read Maus?

Ok, I understand about teaching history to children this is a good thing. However, putting it in a form of a comic book and using fiction rather than non-fiction sort of downplays what actually happened.

I mean why not use a true life story of a survivor and put it in a normal style book? Why downplay this in a cartoon comic form and use fiction rather than non-fiction?

Looks like there's a link to this thread from another source here-
www.associatedcontent.com...

Germany is not launching anything - both the OP and the Reuters article are a bit misleading (although to be fair, the OP is just quoting here).

The book is published by the Anne Frank House in the Netherlands - and it`s been available from them, with teaching guides, in Dutch, English, Polish, German and Hungarian since late 2007. It`s a sequel to a graphic novel they did in 2003. German schools are simply adopting it as a supplementary.

Now seriously, how likely is it that the Anne Frank House Museum would be attempting to put out anything that glosses over the Holocaust?