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Commentary On Maus By: Art Spiegelman

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After reading the novel, Maus by: Art Spiegelman, I’ve noticed multiple similarities from the actual war, and Vladek’s descriptions he gave. I found that Vladek and his wife, Anja we’re separated when they first got into the camps, and when they went to be put into the gas chambers, yet they were saved by Red Cross trucks. Also, when Vladek was in the war, he was fighting as a Polish soldier and eventually he became a prisoner of war and went back to Poland. But, Poland had been taken over by Anti-Semitic rule and during World War Two, many people that were prisoners of war went back to Anti-Semitic areas and went into concentration camps. When the book uses mice as the Jewish representation and the cats as Nazi representation, I think
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