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Maus is a great work. I’ve heard of it being taught a lot of different class levels. I personally wasn’t assigned it until I was in my first year of college, but I’ve heard from people who were asked to read it for the first time anywhere between middle school and graduate school. Personally, I think it is a topic that ought to be taught BEFORE you get to university. One issue I ran across time and again once I was in college was that the comfortable versions of the truth that I was taught in elementary school and high school were Not True and were mostly Lies. Topics like World War II were simplified a lot. I recall being taught that American troops entered the war in response to the Holocaust, something I have since learned is almost laughably far from the truth.