Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
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MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the leader’s parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.
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I am deeply concerned about people using this comic as a history text. Poland and Polish people hardly deserve to be described as “pigs”. It appears that people who like this version of “history as comic” are wilfully blind to the fact that Poles and Polish Jews were murdered in equal numbers by the Germans. In Eastern Poland, where most of the Jewish community resided, the Soviets invaded in 1939 and deported or exterminated the educated Polish populace. The remaining Poles were subjected to extreme terror. To suggest that the Poles were willing accomplices in the destruction of the Jewish people is a liable. One could just as easily write a comic about the occupation of Eastern Poland by the Soviets and cast Jewish people as “pigs”. You can imagine the result to that. Maus is another example of “acceptable bigotry”. “Acceptable” only because the group being liabled is not politcally strong enough to challenge this terrible distortion.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
At first, MAUS may seem like an innocent comic book that illustrates the Holocaust in a new way. The thought is reasonably unique and it would have been fine if that was the only objective. But, this book has a less than honorable second motive that tends to go unnoticed by the average reader: to make a historically inaccurate negative representation of Poles.
This anti-Polish propaganda is very devious…but that is what makes it so effective and disturbing. For example, the book represents Jews as mice, Germans as cats, and Poles as pigs. Portraying Poles as pigs does two things. First, it is a negative slur for obvious reasons. Second, it gives the impression that only Jews were victims of the Germans and that Poles were bystanders or accomplices since cats eat mice as a replacement for of pigs. In addition, the Polish characters either don’t help Jews or turn them in. Finally, the leader omits vital past facts (obtained from sources not more than) about Poland during WWII to help support his propaganda such as:
* Out of 6 million Polish citizens murdered by the Germans, 3 million were not Jewish. * Poland was the only occupied country for which Hitler imposed a penalty of death to an entire family tree for aiding a Jew. One of the main reasons the death penalty was imposed was because many Poles actively helped Jews. * For the first two years of operation, Aushwitz was primarily used for the killing of Poles and not Jews. * “All Poles will disappear from the world…It is essential that the fantastic German people should consider it as its major task to ruin all Poles.” -Heinrich Himmler. * The Polish government heavily funded Zegota –an underground organization formed in Poland to help Jews during WWII. * “More recent research on the theme suggests that 1,000,000 Poles were involved in sheltering Jews, but some authors are inclined to go as high as 3,000,000″. -Forgotten Holocaust
After reading MAUS, an uninformed reader will get a fake impression that only Jews were murdered by the Germans in concentration camps during WWII. One can get the impression that not a single Pole is killed by the Germans and that Poles either didn’t care what was happening to the Jews or actively turned them in. MAUS does a fantastic past injustice to Poles which were also tortured and murdered like the Jews in the millions. Thousands of Poles were executed for helping Jews…but an average person reading MAUS would never learn that. The only impression MAUS leaves with the reader regarding Poles is of pigs. I find this highly repulsive and bigoted.
The following well documented books provide much more information on the theme: “Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation 1939-1944″ by Richard C. Lukas. “Your Life is Worth Mine: How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, 1939-1945″ by Ewa Kurek, Jan Karski. “The Jews and the Poles in World War II” by Stefan Korbonski.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
When I included this and Maus 1 & Persepolis I was informed that they are not graphic novels and that I could not have one free. AMAZING! Of course after I questioned for the distric manager’s name/number there was a sudden change of heart BUT NOT a excellent instore experience from BORDERS at ALL. The GRAPHIC NOVEL is fantastic. Limits are not.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Spiegelman continues the tale of his father’s life, through Auschwitz and afterwards, and his feelings about what has happened to him.
The tale is told using animal forms for the people within, different classes of people are represented as different animals. Mice, obviously are used to represent the prisoners.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I just finished this book for a class i am taking about the Holocaust. Of the books, articles, and movies we have seen so far (including works by elie weisel, claude lanzmann and primo levi), this is the best! I am so impressed with spiegelman’s account of his father’s strife in auschwitz and additional camps. The cartoons are gripping and very representative of how mr. spiegelman felt (i assumed). I wonderful book.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5