Maus II Page 51 analysis

Maus II, page 51 describes the Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II and also the workshop camp extension between the two.  Aushchwitz contained 20,000 prisoners but in Birkenau there were five times that.  Auschwitz one was a camp where they used the prisoners to work and you were meant to last longer.  Birkenau on the other hand is described of a camp with 800 prisoners held in a building that was only supposed to hold 50 horses.  It is described as such a horrible place that the Jews wanted to be gassed and put out of their own misery.  The page is divided and a map is put inbetween the top and the bottom of the page to show the trail between camps to get a visual image of where each one was located.  The map is used to limit the text in the comic used to describe where each was located instead of having to go into deep detail about where each camp was.  Paage 51 is used to give a brief overview of which camp was worse and how bad thew Jews had it at each camp.  The fact that they would rather be gassed at Birkenau goes to show how horrible the conditions where without going into a lot of detail.  I don't think the page has a lot of text because it would be hard to fit so much detail and it kind of makes you imagine in your head what the camps may be like.  They were both described as horrible places so I feel like it is intentionally set up this way to leave it up to the reader to imagine the conditions of each camp.