Spencer O’Brien
English 10
Juskidus
October 17th, 2017
Inhumanity in Humanity
In Night, Elie Wiesel shows how millions of Jewish people were taken by the Nazis, placed into concentration camps and systematically killed. As prisoners, they were beaten regularly, starved, forced to live in horrendous conditions and were even stripped of their names. Overtime, the jews began to completely forget who they once were. As for the Nazis, they would tease, torture, and kill prisoners so often that it no longer seemed inhumane to them. Elie Wiesel demonstrates how the Holocaust brought out the most inhumane and savage side of both the prisoners and the Nazis SS guards.
The Jewish prisoners were punished by Kapos without reason daily, sometimes the prisoners were even chosen to carry out punishments on their own people. …show more content…
Although the Jewish people were the biggest victims in Wiesel's story, the SS soldiers could also be categorized the same way. During Elies stay at a camp he was in, he was given a new name: “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (42) The SS guards are only following orders and doing their job. There was a chain of command in which different levels of orders came from the top and filtered down to the bottom; everyone had someone to obey, and needed to stay obedient to the higher levels of command. Even SS soldiers would have orders to organize and reorganize prisoners often. While organizing the prisoners, they would make different groups putting prisoners in each one, then SS soldiers would follow out commands to send some of them to fire pits where they would be burned alive, as a scare tactic for the other prisoners: “Fear was greater than hunger.” (59) SS soldiers were mere messengers in and during the holocaust; Hitler and the other officials at the top are the ones controlling all of these chess
English 10
Juskidus
October 17th, 2017
Inhumanity in Humanity
In Night, Elie Wiesel shows how millions of Jewish people were taken by the Nazis, placed into concentration camps and systematically killed. As prisoners, they were beaten regularly, starved, forced to live in horrendous conditions and were even stripped of their names. Overtime, the jews began to completely forget who they once were. As for the Nazis, they would tease, torture, and kill prisoners so often that it no longer seemed inhumane to them. Elie Wiesel demonstrates how the Holocaust brought out the most inhumane and savage side of both the prisoners and the Nazis SS guards.
The Jewish prisoners were punished by Kapos without reason daily, sometimes the prisoners were even chosen to carry out punishments on their own people. …show more content…
Although the Jewish people were the biggest victims in Wiesel's story, the SS soldiers could also be categorized the same way. During Elies stay at a camp he was in, he was given a new name: “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (42) The SS guards are only following orders and doing their job. There was a chain of command in which different levels of orders came from the top and filtered down to the bottom; everyone had someone to obey, and needed to stay obedient to the higher levels of command. Even SS soldiers would have orders to organize and reorganize prisoners often. While organizing the prisoners, they would make different groups putting prisoners in each one, then SS soldiers would follow out commands to send some of them to fire pits where they would be burned alive, as a scare tactic for the other prisoners: “Fear was greater than hunger.” (59) SS soldiers were mere messengers in and during the holocaust; Hitler and the other officials at the top are the ones controlling all of these chess