Historical Relevance
Cats have been compared to Hitler in other contexts, the most popular and noteworthy being Art Spiegelman's Maus, a graphic novel about The Holocaust. This was the first time cats were depicted as members of the Nazi Party, more notably as Hitler. This might have ultimately served as inspiration for the site, noted by the Minnesotan Star Tribune. The cat-to-Hitler and mouse-to-Jewish-victim kinship is further explained in sequel MetaMaus. According to Desmond Morris, a zoologist, Maus has "set cats' reputation's back a thousand years." While Maus avoids a "cute" interpretation of the Holocaust (Spiegelman refers to this as "Haulokitsch"), Cats That Look Like Hitler seems to embrace this method of historical interpretation.
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