Examples Of Dehumanization In The Book Night

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Dehumanization is a process the Nazis used to make the Jews fell helpless and unworhty. Germans would whip the Jews to the point where they would be bleeding, and some would even faint from the pain. On page 55 in the book Night, Elie gets whipped 25 times on his back. Elie was trying to stand u to Idek, a Nazi officer, for his rights. Idek had moved a hundred prisoners so he could lay with a girl. Wiesl was whipped for being “curious” and for going into other people’s business. “‘An ordinary prisoner has no right to meddle in other people’s affairs. One of you does not seem to have understood this. I’m obliged, therefore, to make it very clear to him once and fro all.’” This is the scene where Elie Wiesel gets whipped twenty five times for