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Trumble posted...

I was a bit ahead of my age in terms of "grade" (we call it "year level" here) at that time, and we don't have America's obsession with puritanism here, or at least, not to the same extent. I haven't actually read Maus at any age where I recall its content, though, so I can only speak in general.

I definitely did hear about the Holocaust in general (though not too much detail - though I did hear of the gas showers) at around that age, though from family, not from school. I never made the connection between it and the book I spoke of, though, until much much later.

It was more that I'd be shocked if a school had their students read it. If you read it on your own that would be different.