How Did The Holocaust Dehumanized

Dehumanization is the process by which the Nazis gradually reduced the Jews to little more than “things,” which the Jews didn't like. The Nazis treated the Jews as a worthless population and did not give them any care or attention. The Nazis would humiliate and threaten the Jews. They made sure Jews went through plenty of pain and made sure they suffered through the worst conditions possible. The Jews were dehumanized in many ways and experienced many inhumane conditions and brutal treatment. Jewish people were forced into concentration camps and were to do labor. In a camp called Auschwitz, there were gas chambers. The Nazi soldiers would lure the Jews into the chambers by telling them they would get showers. However, the Jews were trapped in the gas chambers, and gassed to death. To be trapped in a dark chamber, naked, and in an overcrowded place is a condition not fit for human. For instance, “Prisoners that work there poured gasoline over the live ones and the dead ones. And the fat from the burning bodies they scooped up and poured again so everyone would burn better,” (Spiegelman 72). After the Jewish

The Jews were referred to and treated like “garbage” at concentration camps. Franz Stangl was a part of the Austrian police, and was interviewed while in prison. The commander of the Totenlager camp, Wirth, said, “‘What shall we do with this garbage?’” (Stengl 142). The Germans did not treat the Jews like individuals, but similar to ¨garbage.¨ One of the brutal conditions the Jewish people suffered was digging their own graves. Another was being deprived of their many rights. Stengl also says, “... you see, I rarely saw them as individuals. It was always a huge mass. I sometimes stood on the wall and saw them in the tube [the passage leading to the gas chamber area],” (142). Yet, many Germans didn't even see the Jews as a society, though they were going through countless inhumane