“Meir Katz was moaning: Why don't they just shoot us now?” (Wiesel 103). This shows how the harsh conditions and punishment of the Nazi officers dehumanize the jewish prisoners in concentration camps. It is the process of dehumanization that made possible the evils of the Holocaust and makes possible the smaller evils that occur on a daily basis. The Nazi guards, as revealed in the Elie Wiesel memoir, Night, were able to victimize their prisoners because the process of dehumanization desensitized them to the evils they inflicted. The Nazi guards in Night victimized the prisoners because the process of dehumanization desensitized them to the evils they inflicted. When Elie first left his Ghetto he was forced onto a cattle car with more …show more content…
Another reason why the prisoners in the holocaust were dehumanized. When Elie and his father were being “transferred” from Auschwitz to Gleiwitz because the Russians were going to attack/liberate at this time Elie was in the hospital due to his injured foot. Elie decided to evacuate the camp with his father with his injured foot. Once again unknowingly if Elie were to stay in the hospital, he would have been liberated by the russians. When they evacuated they first had to run for many many hours to an abandoned city trying to rest, eat, and rehydrate. They then were stuffed into cattle cars to continue their journey. One of the times the train stopped they had stopped in a city which had people looking and interacting with the prisoners in the open cattle car. People were also so primal for the little amount of bread they killed people for the bread. “A worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest” (Wiesel 101). This shows how the prisoners are being dehumanized and are being treated less than human.