At this time there were 9 million Jews in Europe. The Nazis killed 6 million of them. That is 2/3 of the Jewish population gone. They were people just like you and me. And they were senselessly murdered just because they were different.
How they were psychologically transformed from ordinary men into the people, who participated actively in the worst crime against humanity known to date. Even if theses pressures are powerful, it doesn't account for the actions of all the Germans, in every aspect of the war. The Jews were slaughtered because they had different beliefs. Although there we have differences in opinion on certain topics, Browning does an incredible job at depicting the atmosphere at that time. Elie Wiesel on the other hand incorporated various literary techniques to convey the message of Nazi’s brutality towards their Jewish prisoners.
Once at Auschwitz-Birkenau, after being forced to get a haircut and redressing in prison garb, Wiesel states, “In a few seconds, we had ceased to be men” (37). Wiesel goes into explicit detail regarding the beatings he and his father received, and that eventually he became desensitized to the pain; thus, the SS dehumanized them by taking away their physical strength and ability to feel. Throughout his book, Wiesel states that they sometimes Breeden 2 received little to no food and he goes onto to describe how the starvation led men to kill each other over scraps of food, and to get themselves killed all for trying to get a bowl of soup. One of the most important ways Wiesel describes that the SS dehumanized them was forcing them to have tattoos, a number. Wiesel
Night by Elie Wiesel is a story based on his personal experiences during the holocaust controlled by the Nazi army in the concentration camps. Towards the end of 1941 all the Jewish people were taken away from their homes by the Nazi army. When they arrived in Auschwitz they Nazi army separated families by their strength, weakness, and gender. All the men and the women were separated. Then the weak and old ones were separated from the young and strong.
Night Essay The book “Night” best demonstrates how horrible the Holocaust was and how it affected billions of people's lives. This horrific event should never be forgotten which so ever. The Holocaust changed history and several people's perspectives. The Nazis managed to get away with so many things they did to the jews and nobody ever stood up. Instead people remained in silence, and inhumanity took over.
The most notorious example of dehumanization of civilians has to be the killing of Jews in World War Two. Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis for the simple reason that they were Jewish. They were shipped to concentration camps in cattle cars where they were subjected to slave labor until they died of exhaustion or disease. There were numerous examples of dehumanization in the concentration camps. In memoirs of survivors, we learned that they were separated from their families, stripped of their possessions, clothing and cut off their hair.
Lara Olson English 10 Seminar Mrs. Zavacki 20 March 2012 Almost everyone in the world knows about the Holocaust and how it ruined the lives of many. But no one knows the real horror brought upon the survivors until you read their true stories. The rude awakening of the memoir Night and the poem “Aftermath” show that even the kindest people can lose their sense of virtuous direction. Wiesel’s story about his experiences at the concentration camps grew more heartbreaking to read with every word. Wiesel wrote about how horrible it seemed to lose one’s innocence.
The night had “all the features of a classical tragedy, even a poetic name, ‘Crystal Night’,” due to the tons of shattered glass which covered the German cities after it had occurred (Feinermann and Thalmann 7). The German people were outraged by an act committed by one individual, so they took it upon themselves to completely destroy the Jews and their culture in German cities. Everything the German Jews had were to be completely demolished. On that fateful night, “synagogues were burned, and the windows of Jewish stores were broken” in an attempt to sate the absolute rage of the German people (The Holocaust). The belongings of the Jews were not the only casualties of Kristallnacht.
The Holocaust was a tragic time in history that showed the bad side of mankind and how cruel we can be. This took place in the 1930’s and 1940’s. The Holocaust took place in Germany and the leader’s name was Adolf Hitler. There were two different kinds of camps; labor and death. The labor camps were where the people that arrived would work until they were too weak.
The holocaust is the most tragic thing that happened in American history and I’m dumbfounded that there are some people who believe that the Holocaust never existed, that it was some myth or fraud story the government made up. My question is why would someone make this up? In Mr. Barron words “we should not be prejudice and to forgive”. But are scars will always remain there, covered but not fully healed. We should never forget what occurred during the