Dehumanization is a major theme within the novel “Night”. Dehumanization means to make someone less human, to cross that thin line between human and animal. Elie and the other people in the novel all lose their sense of self due to the situation that they were forced into. To make the Jews lose their sense of self the Germans took away their rights, created fear, and starved them. The German soldiers wanted the Jews to willingly walk into their death. This slow and tedious plan to dehumanize the Jews started on page 10 where the Germans took away there right to go to the synagogue. This may seem small, but this is what the Jews thought. They were naive to the troubles coming their way. The Germans planned to slowly take away the Jews rights