“One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.(109)”
Throughout Night by Elie Wiesel, Nazis show time and time again how relentless they will be with their physical and emotional abuse towards prisoners in concentration camps. Through understanding the ways Nazis dehumanize Jews and other minorities, we can see three very important steps to bringing them back into normal life: Non physically abusive treatment, giving them goals, friends, a reason to live, and a non-fluctuant lifestyle, and providing former prisoners with more diverse lifestyle choices.
One of Nazi Germany’s most well known ways of dehumanizing people is by physically abusing them. For example, Elie states that one of the kapos was “beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and …show more content…
Throughout Night, you can see that all that is keeping Elie going is his father. He specifically states after his father’s death that “nothing matters anymore(113)”, but many did not have any family shortly after arriving at the concentration camp. Family keeps people going and gives one goals and aspirations, and without that, what can one do? People need relationships to want to live, to give themselves meaning. Building relationships is a very important task in the rehumanization process. Along with relationships, a stable environment is also needed to stay mentally fit. I would say that the prisoners visiting so many different concentration camps(98) is part of the torture that the Nazis have planned, for it is very difficult to be changing from horrible circumstance to horrible circumstance. Not only can such a fluctuant lifestyle break one’s mental state down, but for many, their faith in God is like family to them. During the selections, a Rabbi had said to Elie that “God is no longer with us(76)”. This sentiment was not only shared by him, but by many other prisoners in the
Throughout Night by Elie Wiesel, Nazis show time and time again how relentless they will be with their physical and emotional abuse towards prisoners in concentration camps. Through understanding the ways Nazis dehumanize Jews and other minorities, we can see three very important steps to bringing them back into normal life: Non physically abusive treatment, giving them goals, friends, a reason to live, and a non-fluctuant lifestyle, and providing former prisoners with more diverse lifestyle choices.
One of Nazi Germany’s most well known ways of dehumanizing people is by physically abusing them. For example, Elie states that one of the kapos was “beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and …show more content…
Throughout Night, you can see that all that is keeping Elie going is his father. He specifically states after his father’s death that “nothing matters anymore(113)”, but many did not have any family shortly after arriving at the concentration camp. Family keeps people going and gives one goals and aspirations, and without that, what can one do? People need relationships to want to live, to give themselves meaning. Building relationships is a very important task in the rehumanization process. Along with relationships, a stable environment is also needed to stay mentally fit. I would say that the prisoners visiting so many different concentration camps(98) is part of the torture that the Nazis have planned, for it is very difficult to be changing from horrible circumstance to horrible circumstance. Not only can such a fluctuant lifestyle break one’s mental state down, but for many, their faith in God is like family to them. During the selections, a Rabbi had said to Elie that “God is no longer with us(76)”. This sentiment was not only shared by him, but by many other prisoners in the