Examples Of Dehumanization In The Book Night

“At every step, somebody fell down and ceased to suffer.” This quote by Elie Wiesel explains the people that were Giving up after hunger and loss of family and he noticed these things everyday at the camps and lived to tell the tragic story in his book Night. Dehumanization was a major occurrence in the concentration camps which killed off over six million Jews. Lack of food, cramped and exhausting ways of transportation and separation of families during the Holocaust was the worst ways of dehumanizing the Jews and it was going on for years with no help. Food was scarce for the Jews in some areas around World War Two, so every little thing mattered evento the point of killing others. The Nazi’s gave them no food like they were dehumanizing

‘“Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me...You’re killing your father… I have bread… for you to… for you to”’ (101). This quote is from the dying father being killed by his own son for a bread crumb and that’s how desperate the Jews were at this time. Without food for so long, it was turning people mad to where families were mauling each other without question. Why would anyone kill a family member over bread? Because they were only focused on one thing and one thing only. Food and as much as they could get even in the smallest quantities. “That’s all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread” (115). To break down this quote it’s talking about the fact that after all the torture, all the death they just wanted food, no more, no less. Food had become such a big necessity to them they would not even care that their family might be dead and they’ll never see them again. That’s how bad the Nazi’s were dehumanizing them and treating them

For hours and hours the Jews were stuck in cattle cars filled with about eighty people, not allowed to sit. ( because they couldn’t) Standing in temperatures of summer, but that doesn’t even compare to their winter travels. It’s frustrating to think that they were treated like cattle and dogs and the Germans think their doing the right thing. ‘“There are eighty of you in the car,” the German officer added.” If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot like dogs”’(24). They were just forced into a cattle cars and were told if they leave they will die, so one can guess how the Nazi’s like to make the Jews travel. From the lack of air and space, to sweating for hours, the way they transported the Jews is something no human should go through. The amount space in the cars was so small and it’s all becasue the Nazi’s thought that the Jews were evil so they treated them below others, even below animals. Later on their hate grows stronger by making them run for miles in the freezing cold. ‘“Don’t think, don’t stop, run!” Near me, men were collapsing in the dirty snow. Gunshots’(86). In this setting Jews are told to run through the snow for hours, which is a very cruel way of getting from one place to another. The thought of slowing down like Elie’s friend Zalman where they were either trampled or shot to death, shows how mad and driven the Nazi’s were at this time to make