Dehumanization In Elie Wiesel's Book Night

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Laura Hillenbrand said “This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.” In Elie Wiesel’s book night it shows how the SS guards dehumanized the jews in the camp. Elie, his family, and everyone he knew were all taken from their homes and promised better lives. The SS guards then, started to treat everyone as numbers instead of actual people. The Germans deprived the jews of physiological, love, and esteem needs.
The Nazi army dehumanized the Jewish my depriving them of physiological needs. Elie stated that “At about noon, we were brought some soup, one bowl of thick soup.” This was given everyday and sometimes followed by a ration of bread. The Jews got no nutritional foods, just the same soup and ration of bread everyday, just enough to give them enough energy to work, but it still made the Jews very weak. They were told “two people to a bunk” which gave them absolutely no personal space to move around in bed a lot. The blocks were always packed and not home-like at all.
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Elie and the prisoners were dehumanized by depriving them of physiological needs such as food, sleep, and shelter. The second thing the German Army dehumanized the Jews of was love, these included how they were taught to not show affection and love for anyone but themselves and even then they weren’t allowed to care about themselves. The last thing the Germans dehumanized the Jews of was esteem needs. They weren’t allowed to feel confident, given any sign of special treatment, and care about religion. The overall effect of the Germans dehumanization on the Jews was big.They were told basically that they weren’t human as they were assigned numbers instead of a name. How would you feel if you were just called a number for

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