“In a few seconds, we had ceased to be men” (PG.36). Elie is a Jewish boy from Transylvania who is taken to Auschwitz, where he is separated from his mother and sister. Elie and his father are then moved to the concentration camp called “Buna” and spend most of their time there. They then were forced to be evacuated to Gleiwitz, where they ran about 42 miles to reach their destination. They spent about 3 days at Gleiwitz and then they were transported to Buchenwald by train. There they are rescued by Americans and a resistance group that attacked the camp. Sadly Elie’s father died in Buchenwald before the rescue due to a sickness and being sent to the crematory. Dehumanization of the Jewish people in “Night” ,by Elie Wiesel, happened in a variety of ways and helped Hitler achieve his ideas about Jewish people.
In “night” we see how the Jewish people are being oppressed and dehumanized in so many ways. One example is “I became A-7713. From now on, I had no other …show more content…
One example of this is when we visualize the Germans beating and whipping the Jews and not having any remorse for them. They hit the Jews like they were just punching a tree or an inanimate object. The Germans did not even have any feelings about how they treated the Jews with the little to no food, punishments, and threats. Which is one concept that Hitler wanted for the Jews. He also achieved almost god like acknowledgment from everyone, even the Jews at the end saw him as a respectable man that kept his promises. Even if his views and promises were something horrific. “ I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.”. This shows that even some jews respect him as a man that will always keep his promises unlike their religion and saviors. With the help of dehumanization, Hitler did achieve some of his goals for the German
In “night” we see how the Jewish people are being oppressed and dehumanized in so many ways. One example is “I became A-7713. From now on, I had no other …show more content…
One example of this is when we visualize the Germans beating and whipping the Jews and not having any remorse for them. They hit the Jews like they were just punching a tree or an inanimate object. The Germans did not even have any feelings about how they treated the Jews with the little to no food, punishments, and threats. Which is one concept that Hitler wanted for the Jews. He also achieved almost god like acknowledgment from everyone, even the Jews at the end saw him as a respectable man that kept his promises. Even if his views and promises were something horrific. “ I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.”. This shows that even some jews respect him as a man that will always keep his promises unlike their religion and saviors. With the help of dehumanization, Hitler did achieve some of his goals for the German