Analysis Of This Way For The Gas Ladies And Gentlemen

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Is the survival of a person depended on the death of somebody else’s? In the story This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski, it recounts the struggles Tadek faced when unloading the wagons of the train. Tadek was severely dramatized by how he and other prisoners were threating the camp arrivals. Which leads to the question, what led to Tadek and other prisoners to be in that situation where they needed to compromise with their moral beliefs? To know the answer, we need to first know why people widely accepted the Nazi’s “final solution,” some reasons may include people being pressured into believing in it because if they did not accept the ideology, then it was certain that they were going to die. And we need to understand

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