Gregory Maguire has remarked, “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of ”(Goodreads). During WWII, Hitler believed that what he was doing to millions of innocent people was for the good of his nation. This makes him a truly evil character in history. The prisoners of his death factories included the Jewish people, Roma, homosexuals, and political prisoners. Throughout Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, the Nazis use dehumanization to strip the Jewish people of everything that makes them human. The physical tool that the concentration camps hadson its victims changes them into something inhuman and unrecognizable.
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The victims of these camps are so mentally disturbed that all they care about is surviving. When Elie is shoved in a cattle car for another transportation to a different camp, he explains the horrible conditions they are in. Elie brings to mind, “One day when we had to come to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it in the wagon.There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest”(Wiesel 105). Not only were the Nazis treating the prisoners like animals, civilians are being entertained by a group of innocent people fighting for a piece of bread. The prisoners kindness and rational thinking is replaced by the thought of survival. In the same way Tackach confirms, “As a train passed through the townspeople threw bread into the open cars, then watched as the prisoners beat and killed each other”(2). The Nazi party has convince people that these helpless prisoners are so worthless that watching them kill each other is entertaining to civilians. The workers just stand there watching as innocent peoples’ human rights are taken away. Consequently, treating people like animals by throwing them into a cattle cas and making them fight for food negatively impacts a person’s mental
The victims of these camps are so mentally disturbed that all they care about is surviving. When Elie is shoved in a cattle car for another transportation to a different camp, he explains the horrible conditions they are in. Elie brings to mind, “One day when we had to come to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it in the wagon.There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest”(Wiesel 105). Not only were the Nazis treating the prisoners like animals, civilians are being entertained by a group of innocent people fighting for a piece of bread. The prisoners kindness and rational thinking is replaced by the thought of survival. In the same way Tackach confirms, “As a train passed through the townspeople threw bread into the open cars, then watched as the prisoners beat and killed each other”(2). The Nazi party has convince people that these helpless prisoners are so worthless that watching them kill each other is entertaining to civilians. The workers just stand there watching as innocent peoples’ human rights are taken away. Consequently, treating people like animals by throwing them into a cattle cas and making them fight for food negatively impacts a person’s mental