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Debated In Germany

Berlin (JTA) — Hitler's in-
vasion of Poland is depicted
with swastika-painted Luft-
waffe planes flying over an
SS officer who is shooting a
Polish civilian. Blood spurts
out of his nose and his neck.
A few pages before, the
Reichskristallnacht is
featured in a cartoon of bur-
ning synagogues, broken
glass and beaten and
bleeding Jews.
With blood streaming out
of his nose and mouth, a Jew
cries to his Nazi tormentors:
"What have I done? Please,
let me go to my children,
they are still in the burning
house. I will give you what
you want.'
His Nazi tormentors shout

thought the pictures were
cruel and horrible and woipd.
turn students off fr,---u the
subject. -
She .so thought the text,
w hich uses many original
citations from Hitler, was
too tough.
"But my students didn't
think that at all," she said.
However, she emphasized
that the comic must be com-
bined with other tools to
properly teach the history of
the Third Reich. Her class,
for example, has visited
Buchenwald and a syn-
agogue and has spoken with
older people in the commun-
ity about the Hitler period.
Some financial aid for the
book comes from the

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A poster by the creator of a Hitler comic book.

back: "And we'll give you
what you deserve."
This is Nazism, the comic
book.
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pailh er, the
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here since 1989.
Since 1991, • some 900
students and 36 teachers in
both western and eastern
Germany were involved in
tests to determine if the com-
ic was suitable for teaching
high school students about
the Third Reich.
"We had reservations
ourselves," said Franz-Josef
Payrhuber, who directed the
trials for the Mainz-based
Institute for Teachers Con-
tinuing Education. "But we
were really surprised at how
positively the book was ac-
cepted. "
Cecilia Bongers, a teacher
in Koblenz who was part of

the trial, said she was
extremely skeptical" about
using the Hitler comic. She

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and separate
pa ckets was
ed , in part because of
reservations from the Israeli
Embassy.
Miryam Shomrat, the di-
rector of the Israeli Embassy
in Bonn, said that at no time
did she ask for the distribu-
tion of the material to be
stopped.
Ms. Shomrat also said she
has trouble accepting comics
as serious material for
teachers.
She expressed her con-
cerns to Rita Sussmuth,
president of the German
Bundestag, or parliament,
and asked if the book could
be reviewed again. Ms.

Sussmuth passed the re-
quest to Gunter Reichert,
president of the center.
Shortly after that the
distribution was stopped.
Tilman Ernst, who
directed the project for the
center, said the distribution
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