Especially adapted to one country and its history, the Maus concept would have immense potential for opening minds and maybe even something like redemption and a real reappraisal of history besides political correct drivel, bigotry, and empty promises. Impossible and unthinkable in Europe after WW2, but in the bible belt, it´s totally fine more than 150 years after the American civil war.Įven more disturbing is the 20th century history of Russia and China with numbers between dozens of millions up to 100 million people killed per country. Let´s say removing statues and street names of mass murderers in the US, just imagine this in Germany with nazi leaders and the swastika instead of slave trading warmongerers and the confederate flag. There have been other genocides in colonial history without numbers of the people killed, starved to death, or infected with plagues and no real interest in redemption by giving back land to Native Americans of both Americas or historical revisionism. It could be used for visualizing other atrocities too Each page screams out the terror, the underlying themes are the sickest possible for even the most murderous apes on the planet, and one will never forget the associations between the pictures and reality itself.

Much more memorable that way than in general anti war productionsīecause people are used to war movies, games, satires, pictures, etc., which creates a kind of habituation effect and deadening, but this is something different and more tangible. But the impact and mind blowing factor are amazing, because it´s It´s just too hardcore, by using anthropomorphized animals and the art of painting, it gets even worse and kind of more graphic. It's petty and art is free, but some nations might not find it that great to be associated with certain animals.ĭefinitively nothing for kids or even some adults Not just because it would have been ideal to show that they´re all the same, just different, let's say with dogs or cats and many breeds, but because it´s just an unnecessary point of criticism that could have easily been avoided.

It´s still a great work, but maybe all the same animals of one species would have been an even better choice.

Using animals for certain nations is a balancing act A way to deal with the unspeakable that makes it even more disturbing and weird.

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