Dehumanization in the Day and Night
The Holocaust was the horrible, brutal , state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Nazis would gather every Jew that they could find and bring them to these infernos, separate them families, not knowing it would never see each other. Nazis decided if they would have the opportunity to live or if they would be sentenced straight to execution. In these camps, babies became target practice, being tossed in the air like an object with no significant value and shot at with no remorse. The older people not fit enough could be sentenced to execution, tossed into pits of fire while fully conscious burning them alive.In the auto-biography Night by Elie Wiesel, he expresses his experiences and observations in which he and fellow Jews, disabled, homosexual and many others that didn't fit nazi criteria were dehumanized while living in concentration camps. The Nazis dehumanized innocent prisoners affected Elie by tattooing numbers on people's arms, giving the striped and worn down uniforms,and abusing them publicly. …show more content…
Their name went with them, it represented them looks, if you are capable of running fast enough and personality then that was all gone to the nazis. "We knew what that meant. An SS man would examine us. Whenever he found a weak one, a 'musulman' as we called them, he would write his number down: good for the crematory" (Wiesel 66). Every few weeks the officers would call a "selection" to look at the prisoners fitness. They were judged souls on the fact that if you can run fast enough then you would continue to live another day and work. If not, you were then sent to an execution camp or killed right on the spot. During selection they were told to undress out of their uniforms, which also dehumanized
The Holocaust was the horrible, brutal , state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Nazis would gather every Jew that they could find and bring them to these infernos, separate them families, not knowing it would never see each other. Nazis decided if they would have the opportunity to live or if they would be sentenced straight to execution. In these camps, babies became target practice, being tossed in the air like an object with no significant value and shot at with no remorse. The older people not fit enough could be sentenced to execution, tossed into pits of fire while fully conscious burning them alive.In the auto-biography Night by Elie Wiesel, he expresses his experiences and observations in which he and fellow Jews, disabled, homosexual and many others that didn't fit nazi criteria were dehumanized while living in concentration camps. The Nazis dehumanized innocent prisoners affected Elie by tattooing numbers on people's arms, giving the striped and worn down uniforms,and abusing them publicly. …show more content…
Their name went with them, it represented them looks, if you are capable of running fast enough and personality then that was all gone to the nazis. "We knew what that meant. An SS man would examine us. Whenever he found a weak one, a 'musulman' as we called them, he would write his number down: good for the crematory" (Wiesel 66). Every few weeks the officers would call a "selection" to look at the prisoners fitness. They were judged souls on the fact that if you can run fast enough then you would continue to live another day and work. If not, you were then sent to an execution camp or killed right on the spot. During selection they were told to undress out of their uniforms, which also dehumanized