Maus Becomes In-House German Federal Agency Offering, Curriculum Component

I could be looking at this story all wrong, but it seems to be saying that Maus has since 2008 been an ingrained part of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, an educational institution seemingly designed to support a certain kind of democracy-underlined civic discourse. In terms of its educational mission, it seems to available as a stand-alone -- kind of Scholastic-style take-home books program, only with a bureaucratic stamp of approval -- and as a part of a wider educational program more generally about the issues it confronts. I'm not sure why that resonates beyond the obvious, but it's not a joke to suggest that Semitic issues of any kind are difficult to parse through governmental agencies regardless of the history involved. Also: I wasn't sure that Maus could become any more of an institution as a work of art, but this suggests I was wrong.
 
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