Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

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The Nazis used dehumanization to strip the Jews of their human qualities or personality. They made the Jews into what they believed that they were, animals.It slowly melted the Jews anger into despair and desperation. Their standards of living were lowered incredibly. The rights that were stolen from them eventually felt like novelties. For example, having a bathroom was not a requirement for the places they stayed in. The basic need of a bathroom was not given to the Jews in concentration camps. Fear made them run like a scared cat and even grown men cry like a newborn baby. In many places Jews were massacred in one place such as a colony of ants might be exterminated in a house. By the end they lost their faith in God and some their will to live. …show more content…

Before that, they were forced to give their valuables to the Nazis and only awhile after that, they were forced to leave their belongings behind. They were forced to classify themselves as Jews with a yellow star and numbers. This slowly made them feel worthless. When they were forced into ghettos, their rights were deliberately taken away in stages. Some examples of this are the inability to go to restaurants, cafes, trains, synagogues, and the 6:00 curfew. In their first concentration camp, Elie Wiesel said, “‘If that is true, then I don't want to wait. I'll run into the electrified barbed wire. That would be easier than a slow death in the flames.’” (Wiesel 33). This is an example of when the Nazis used close-to-death situations to scare the Jews into considering suicide. In the the middle

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