Thoughts after Maus II Disucssion

An image that emotionally shocked me is the bottom block on pg. 72 of Maus II. Spiegelman depicts the Jews burning in either one of the crematoriums or a cremation pit. The caption above says, "Prisoners what worked there poured gasoline over the live ones and the dead ones". This terrifies me because the prisoners were forced to help on, or essentially kill the other prisoners. They were forced to pour gasoline on them! When really those prisoners that were pouring the gasoline would be the next to die. It is unthinkable what the prisoners were forced to do. The lower text box says, "And the fat from the burning bodies they scooped and poured again so everyone could burn better". This is really shows the frankness Speigelman writes with. It is almost as if he is being sarcastic about the way they would re-use the fat to help the other bodies burn more easily. Perhaps Speigelman is not using sarcasm, but more along the lines of complete and utter truth and therefore it comes out in a way that one is not sure to take it so seriously.