The way of Hitler believing the Jews were another race is shown with the way the author portrays the Jews as mice. Also, it was to show they were subhuman and festered like rats in the sewer with the way the Nazis rounded up the Jews placing them into ghettos.
Moreover, the idea of race is used to oppress a marginalized group that is vastly different from the oppressor. There for the cat-mouse metaphor exemplifies the oppressing of the Jews that followed the Nazi propaganda with the movie “The Eternal Jew”. However, in the graphic novel the reason the mice stand out away from the rest of setting because of the Polish non-Jews are seen as pigs only enhancing the idea that race is a social construction. A social construction used by Hitler to justify his extermination of Jews because of them being a subhuman race. I agree that race is a social construction in the fact that there is no genes showing that any human is different from the other in large aspects. Also I believe that race is a social construction because of there being evidence showing the start of racial classifications with the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus. Moreover, race has been so engrained in our minds that it has become a piece of us that we segregate “us” from “them”. This is exactly like that the Nazis did to the Jews separating them from the rest of Germany increasing the segregation between the Germans and the