German History in comic - an uncertain proposition that is very well done

As a historian, I am always skeptical when it comes to film terrible episodes of German history or subsequently to illustrate.
Now I have done the book / comic above to heart and tell once a little something.
The author Art Spiegelman, he was born in 1848 as son of two Auschwitz survivor and a successful cartoonist. For "The Mouse", he received in 1992 as the first signatory of his guild the Pulitzer Prize.
Originally this book was in several Einzeheften until it has been published as a combined circulation in Germany in 2008.
In his comic Art Spiegelman tries to follow in words and pictures the story of his parents. His mother Anja has in 1968 taken his own life and the pain his father Wladek has destroyed all her diaries and other documents. So now is only his father as a witness available. This is difficult and marked by his Vita. A pronounced avarice distinguishes him, so his second wife Mala runs away and his son and his French wife endure only a short time in his company.
During his visits kind questioned his father after his life. In particular, he is interested in getting to know between his father and his mother, and the time of the German Nazi dictatorship.
Handlungsort is Poland where nature einheiratet in a good family and a wealthy man. Together with his wife Anja, he leads a good life, and the little firstborn Richieu crowned their love.
The Polish Jews will mirror man is as mice, Poles as pigs and Nazis as cats. French are presented as frogs. By using this transmission features Art Spiegelman, the story of his parents, of the first persecutions, over the ghetto up to Auschwitz and ultimately the liberation and reunification of the parents. In addition to the stories read by the author many representations and asks specifically for.
It is a type of workup that have succeeded in my view. But the animal imagery works for himself and takes it all the plate presentation. Art Spiegelman illustrated German history in a way that is not pointing but judgmental. Each time you get the feeling that the author / signatory reproduces objectively and by far Heard and Read. He dispensed with great emotion, he does not teach, he really wants to just tell.
On 295 pages he designed a piece of family history that brought his father and him in his last years together.
The drawings are very detailed and elaborately and many a time I wondered how it could be that you can buy this book as low (14.95).