“Jewish leaders in Germany are deeply upset” by two new comic books that “depict the horrors of Auschwitz,” according to a Times of London report by Roger Boyes. Yossel, by American Joe Kubert, and Auschwitz, by Frenchman Pascal Croci, are ” are intended to introduce younger Germans to the tragic fate of Jews,” in a way that responds to the fact that “pupils complain that the subject is too drily and too cautiously presented” in current school curriculums. But “the project has sparked a nervous, sometimes angry response,” reports Boyes. One Jewish leader tells him, “A comic strip is not the appropriate form. The subject is too serious to portray in this way.” Another fear of the Jewish community, says Boyes, “is that comic books could end up as collectors’ items for far-right activists. Crude anti-Semitic comics already circulate in the neo-Nazi underground in Germany and Italy. Camp commanders depicted as monsters in the comic strips are perversely often attractive to teenagers with ultra-nationalist sympathies.”