The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ‘may fuel dangerous Holocaust fallacies’

Boyne’s book tells the story of a friendship between the son of an Auschwitz commandant and a Jewish boy in the Nazi concentration camp. Photograph: Allstar Picture Library Ltd./Alamy

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas may “perpetuate a number of dangerous inaccuracies and fallacies” when used in teaching young people about the Holocaust, an academic report has said.

According to research by the Centre for Holocaust Education at University College London, more than a third of teachers in England use the bestselling book and film adaptation in lessons on the Nazi genocide.