Edith Carter once said, “Everybody, every human being has the obligation to contribute somehow to this world.” This is not what the Nazis believed during the Holocaust, as their main goal was to strip an entire group of people from that obligation. This is further explained through Night, a historical account that touches on the hardships that the Jews who were taken during the Holocaust went through. The author of the book is a man named Eliezer Wiesel who was kept in multiple camps during his teenage years. The dehumanization of the Jewish people by the Nazis in the form of starvation, coercion, and robbing them of their individuality greatly affected Eliezer’s outlook on life. While in concentration, the Jews were barely fed to the point where they were starving. All they got to eat …show more content…
If they were fighting each other over the smallest pieces of bread, they obviously would not have had much to eat. This can further be explained by the fact that the Nazis at Auschwitz and other camps wanted to starve them to the point where they were just barely able to live. Wiesel reveals that he too was affected, stating that “[a]t that moment in time, all that mattered to me was [soup and bread]. The bread, the soup–those were my entire life” (52). Wiesel effectively shows us what happens when such necessities are taken away from the ones who need it; it starts to become the only thing they care about and long for. At this point in his life, he no longer cares about anything else, because the only thing that matters to him is food. In this way, the Nazis have stripped him and fellow Jews of the basic human privilege and right to decent nutrition, which is–within its own right–dehumanization. The Jews were also forced on death marches while in the camps. Every so often, the SS officers would force the inmates to evacuate their camp, which was a cause of major