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Everywhere in the world, some people are treated terribly. They are pushed down by others because they are not liked by anyone. In a well known case that took place in 1941, there was a huge number of Jewish people that were tortured by Germans. Night by Elie Wiesel, a memoir about his experience in the Holocaust. Jews were the main target of the Nazi genocide. The Schutzstaffel, also referred to as the SS officers, are known as an organization under Hitler and the Nazi party. These people captured Jews and forced them into hard labor, while only having a small ration of soup and bread. The SS officers tattooed the Jews like cattle with a serial number. Wiesel also reveals how the prisoners were treated. They were forced to separate into groups …show more content…

The SS officers tattoo each prisoner so they know how many people there are, and die. The Jews are labeled as cattle. The farmers put tags on their animals to manage them in groups and to keep records of them. The SS officers look at the Jews as animals. They are doing things similar to farmers, and the officers are making sure that they know they are being looked after like animals. Being labeled as something other than his name breaks down his humanity because he is now being treated like an animal. As soon as the Red Army comes closer to Wiesel’s current camp, Buna, the SS officers pack everything up and force the prisoners to march. When the officers made them increase their pace, one of them shouted, “‘Faster, you filthy dogs!’ We were no longer marching. We were running. Like automatons”(85). The SS officers forced the prisoners to run for more than ten hours. They start at six o’clock in the evening and finally stop when the sun rises. No human will ever run for more than ten hours in the freezing cold. The prisoners are being treated like sheep. Farmers have dogs that round up sheep, and they keep them in order. The prisoners are forced to run in a group, and if one person steps out of line, they will be

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6. Chapter Six Wiesel and his father evacuate with the remaining inmates, marching while the SS directed insults towards them, even going to call them “flea-ridden dogs” (85). As they continue, Wiesel realizes that they were practically running “like machines,” no one lagging behind out of fear of being shot by the SS (85). After witnessing the death of a young boy who fell behind, he contemplates doing the same and declares that “the idea of dying… fascinated [him]” (86). The pain that he was in was so great, that he wished to die in order to end it all.

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They were helpless, the SS officers had the dominance they wanted. They enjoyed seeing the Jews as helpless creatures, and the SS officers let all of this power get to their head. They treated the Jews like the subhuman creatures they believed them to be. Like previously stated, losing their identity created a feeling of hopelessness. Throughout the whole story we can feel and invision their hopelessness and inferiority to the

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Prisoners were first beaten brutally later hanged up and left to die. In the camp prisoners would be examined by SS man, Wiesel said “ Whenever he found a weak one, he would write his number down: Good for crematory” (38). The Nazi were capable of doing anything they wanted with the prisoners, according

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But no one replaced us”. This shows that the guards are being subbed in and out to watch over the prisoners but the Jews had to walk for hours without any stopping and no one could sub in for them and take a break. He describes the cold, hunger, and death that he and his fellow prisoners face every day. He also uses powerful metaphors to show the dehumanization of the Jews, such as when he writes that "the SS was no longer human beings. They were beasts with human faces, men with the morals of animals.

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Weisell explains what life was like in a concentration camp; “ Hunger- thirst- fear- transport- selection- fire- chimney: these words all have intrinsic meaning, but in those times they meant something else (Weisellix).” The Jews were treated not as humans because they were not viewed as such in the eyes of the Nazi’s.

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You see it at the zoo, you see it at shelters, you see wild animals in a cage, which thoroughly describes how the Jewish community was treated at the time of the treacherous period known as the Holocaust, which started in 1939. The Holocaust was a period when the Nazi party and Hitler put millions of Jewish people in concentration camps, where they would then die or work until death. However, they were treated with dehumanizing qualities, similar to how a wild animal would be treated. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the Schutzstaffel or the SS officers, treated Elie, the main character, and the Jewish prisoners in a dehumanizing way by taking their belongings away, giving them commands like wild dogs, and calling and tattooing them with

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A man appeared, crawling snakelike in the direction of the cauldrons.... We jumped at the sound of the shot." (59-60). This demonstrates that the fear of being shot overshadows the hunger of most prisoners. None of the other prisoners are willing to risk their lives, even though there are no SS soldiers around.

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Theses guards were instructed to stay on their side of the fence and they had to keep the rule that no one was allowed in the factories with out the permission of Schindler. Schindler’s workers were only half as hungry as everyone else in the other camps. The meals Schindler gave his workers had a calorie count of a little under 2000 and the meals that Hitler fed his Jews had a calorie count of less that 900. In Schindler’s factory he registered everyone who worked for him. The elderly were registered as twenty years younger than their age, and the children were registered as legal adults. Schindler worked in a different way than Hitler did.

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They all endured abuse while they were there. According to Abraham Maslow’’s theory, prisoner’s deprived of their basic needs while they were in the concentration camp. Abraham Maslow created a model for human behavior based on needs. These needs are what we need for survival and to flourish. ” Human needs are arranged in a hierarchy, with physiological (survival) needs at the bottom,

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The SS does not care that these are human beings, real people with families and lives that are dead as a direct result of them. They have no compassion for the lives lost, the people they have murdered. At best they are apathetic, uncaring, but at worst, monstrous and barbaric, barely human. After being transported to Buna, a work camp, the prisoners are forced to labor through horrible conditions, starving and sick, to work in factories. The leader of Elie’s block, Idek, is known as one of the best Kapos to have, one of the kind ones, yet he too is riddled with cruelty.

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Their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of the pleasure. If one of us stopped for a second, a quick shot eliminated the filthy dog.” (Wiesel 85). This quote justifies the heartless actions of the SS men. While testing the emaciated prisoner’s endurance, without hesitation, the SS men proceeded to executing any Jewish hostage who dares to refuse

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