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It's about the Holocaust. [[ForegoneConclusion What do you expect?]]

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It's about the Holocaust.UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. [[ForegoneConclusion What do you expect?]]
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It's about the Holocaust. [[ForegoneConclusion What do you ''expect''?]]

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It's about the Holocaust. [[ForegoneConclusion What do you ''expect''?]]expect?]]
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It's about the Holocaust. What do you ''expect''?

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It's about the Holocaust. [[ForegoneConclusion What do you ''expect''?''expect''?]]
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* Sort of Meta. The horror of the camps is so awful that, even on rereading, it is easy to forget that the Nazis committed genocide by shooting, lynching etc. It's as though there are two genocides, the second so awful it manages to obscure the first.
** Related: the horror is so total that any act that even resembling decency, however faintly - the Nazi officer 'rewarding' Vladek with a sausage instead of killing him - can seem heartwarming. And then you remember what exactly you are reading, seeing.
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* The fact that Tosha fatally poisoned Art's little brother and her children, and this was treated as '''merciful''' compared to being sent to a death camp, speaks volumes about how horrifying Nazism that Tosha killing children could ever come across as the '''right decision'''.

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* The fact that Tosha fatally poisoned herself, Art's little older brother and her children, and this was treated as '''merciful''' compared to being sent to a death camp, speaks volumes about how horrifying Nazism was that Tosha killing children could ever come across as the '''right decision'''.
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* The fact that Tosha fatally poisoned Art's little brother and her children, and this was treated as '''merciful''' compared to being sent to a death camp, speaks volumes about how horrifying Nazism that Tosha killing children could ever come across as the '''right decision'''.
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** Related: the horror is so total that any act that even resembling decency, however faintly - the Nazi officer 'rewarding' Vladek with a sausage instead of killing him - can seem heartwarming. And then you remember what exactly you are reading, seeing.

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** Related: the horror is so total that any act that even resembling decency, however faintly - the Nazi officer 'rewarding' Vladek with a sausage instead of killing him - can seem heartwarming. And then you remember what exactly you are reading, seeing.seeing.
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* Sort of Meta. The horror of the camps is so awful that, even on rereading, it is easy to forget that the Nazis committed genocide by shooting, lynching etc. It's as though there are two genocides, the second so awful it manages to obscure the first...

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* Sort of Meta. The horror of the camps is so awful that, even on rereading, it is easy to forget that the Nazis committed genocide by shooting, lynching etc. It's as though there are two genocides, the second so awful it manages to obscure the first...first.
** Related: the horror is so total that any act that even resembling decency, however faintly - the Nazi officer 'rewarding' Vladek with a sausage instead of killing him - can seem heartwarming. And then you remember what exactly you are reading, seeing.
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* The SS officer who grabs a screaming child by the foot and slams him against the wall.

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* The SS officer who grabs a screaming child by the foot and slams him against the wall.wall.
* Sort of Meta. The horror of the camps is so awful that, even on rereading, it is easy to forget that the Nazis committed genocide by shooting, lynching etc. It's as though there are two genocides, the second so awful it manages to obscure the first...
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* The comic Art makes about his mother's suicide is this mixed with TearJerker.

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* The "Prisoner on the Hell Planet", the comic Art makes about his mother's suicide is this mixed with TearJerker.
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* The illustration of the burning mice that opens chapter two, book two. NightmareFace at its finest.

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* The illustration of the burning mice that opens chapter two, book two. NightmareFace at its finest.finest.
* The SS officer who grabs a screaming child by the foot and slams him against the wall.
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* The countless times Vladek tells of someone who he knew, was friends with, had a plan, etc and after they parted ways they were never seen again.

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* The countless times Vladek tells of someone who he knew, was friends with, had a plan, etc and after they parted ways they were never seen again.again.
* The illustration of the burning mice that opens chapter two, book two. NightmareFace at its finest.
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* The cargo trains, packed into in cargo containers without food, water or facilities for days on end.

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* The cargo trains, trains people were packed into in cargo containers without with no food, water or facilities for days on end.
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** At Auschwitz, when the bodies were pulled out of the gas chambers, they were pushed into ditches and set on fire. Not all of them were dead. The fires were kept burning longer by recycling the burnt fat of the victims...
** The four hanged women. There's a scene in the present that's drawn as if they're hanging there, a sort of flashback.
** The comic Art makes about his mother's suicide is this mixed with TearJerker.
** The cargo trains, packed into in cargo containers without food, water or facilities for days on end.
** The countless times Vladek tells of someone who he knew, was friends with, had a plan, etc and after they parted ways they were never seen again.

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** * At Auschwitz, when the bodies were pulled out of the gas chambers, they were pushed into ditches and set on fire. Not all of them were dead. The fires were kept burning longer by recycling the burnt fat of the victims...
** * The four hanged women. There's a scene in the present that's drawn as if they're hanging there, a sort of flashback.
** * The comic Art makes about his mother's suicide is this mixed with TearJerker.
** * The cargo trains, packed into in cargo containers without food, water or facilities for days on end.
** * The countless times Vladek tells of someone who he knew, was friends with, had a plan, etc and after they parted ways they were never seen again.
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It's about the Holocaust. What do you ''expect''?
** At Auschwitz, when the bodies were pulled out of the gas chambers, they were pushed into ditches and set on fire. Not all of them were dead. The fires were kept burning longer by recycling the burnt fat of the victims...
** The four hanged women. There's a scene in the present that's drawn as if they're hanging there, a sort of flashback.
** The comic Art makes about his mother's suicide is this mixed with TearJerker.
** The cargo trains, packed into in cargo containers without food, water or facilities for days on end.
** The countless times Vladek tells of someone who he knew, was friends with, had a plan, etc and after they parted ways they were never seen again.

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