...Genocide is the act of killing a large mass of people for no valid reason. The Holocaust was a genocide where the Nazi Germans tried to eliminate the Jews from Germany from 1939-1945. The Nazi Germans believed that the Jews were the reason Germany lost World War 1 and wanted them to pay for what they did. The Armenian genocide was where the Turkish people in the Ottoman Empire desired a homogenous Turkish state and wanted to get rid of the Armenians from 1915-1918. Although the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide are similar in their horrible dehumanization and unjust polarization stages, each genocide exterminated its people differently....
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...Dehumanization is the act of process of reducing people to objects that do not deserve the treatment accorded humans. The Nazis dehumanized the Jews because they blamed the Jews for all the misfortunes that had befallen Germany. The Germans dehumanized many Jews during the Holocaust, the mass murder of millions of people leading up to and during WWII. For example, at the beginning of the novel the Jewish community of Sighet is forced to evacuate from their homes. Later they are forced to sit crowded together in wagons that have no space to move around in. A Nazi officer said to them, “‘There are eighty of you in this wagon,’ added the German officer. ‘If anyone is missing, you’ll all be shot, like dogs...’” (Wiesel 24). This quote shows the...
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...The Holocaust: Effects of Dehumanization in Art Spiegelman’s Maus War broke out in Europe in September of 1939. Everything went downhill from then, Germans began to take over and minorities such as Jews were quickly forced to go to concentration camps, these horrible camps were stationed all over Europe. One of the main camps in Poland was Auschwitz. Opened in May 1940, it was an extermination camp located in southern Poland in a small town named Oswiecim. The camp consisted of three separate camps not far from one another so that communication could be kept between them. These three camps included: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II–Birkenau and Auschwitz III–Monowitz. Auschwitz I was classified as the base camp where prisoners mainly worked, Auschwitz II–Birkenau was the main extermination camp where prisoners went to die in a variety of ways after being too weak to work, and Auschwitz III–Monowitz another labor camp, which held prisoners who worked at a German chemical factory, IG Farben. The killing methods ranged from being lined up at a wall and shot to being put into ‘showers’ that realized a toxic gas. Once the prisoners were dead, they were then burned in the crematoriums at the camp. Essentially the prisoners of the labor and death camps were treated as objects and not as the humans that they were. Many might even go as far as refer to the Germans as heartless for doing the things that they did to the innocent Jews and other monitories. Art Spiegelman’s Maus shows...
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...Dehumanization: Essential for the attempt to execute a population The Holocaust was one of the most devastating events leading up to World War II, was the Holocaust, which millions of people were tortured and murdered by the Nazis. Hitler was an anti-Semitic political leader of the Nazi regime, who believed that the Jewish “race” contaminated the Aryan population, and therefore needed to be eliminated. The Nuremberg Laws were laws that excluded Jews and non-Aryans from German citizenship as well as their natural rights. In addition, “Jewishness” was defined in racial terms. One strategy that allowed the Nazis to carry out the Holocaust was their disregard for non-Germans, treating them as less than human. Dehumanization is considered...
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...Dehumanization in Night Dehumanization; the process that made the Jews living during the Holocaust seem less than human. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel writes about his life as a young Jew trying to survive while living in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Throughout his story, multiple examples of dehumanization are shown. Jews begin to lose their rights as citizens. Eventually they are stripped of their identities, and are being treated as if they are nothing but animals. Elie, his father, and the rest of the Jewish people were seen as not being worthy of humane treatment. Millions of Jews were murdered as if they were nothing but objects for the Nazi's to work and starve to death. Following the period of time that the...
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...impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Fear is an emotion known far too well for the Jews during the holocaust. Nazis have taken over their lives and left them with nothing, but fear. Jews fear for the lives of themselves and their loved ones. Elie Wiesel was a lucky individual that got to escape this fear. His book Night describes the trepidation of physical abuse, the consternation of stolen identity,and the apprehension of the way they are transported. Night has an overall theme of dehumanization. The Nazis take away all of the Jews human qualities in three ways that cause their fear....
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...The Fear of Valiant Heroes "One more stab to the heart, one more to hate. One less reason to live” (Wiesel 109). Countless victims of the Holocaust gradually lost the desire to live due to the cruel acts of Hitler’s regime. Even after WWII, victims still would cling to the fear of enduring the abuse of the Nazis. Several victims wish these memories would vanish from their subconscious, but instead Elie Wiesel took the liberty of writing Night, which is a memoir that valiantly recounts his experience as a Holocaust survivor. His autobiographical account of the concentration camps grimly illustrates the agony felt by the victims and exposes to the public how the actions of the Nazi regime would mentally, physically, and emotionally affect the...
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...Dehumanization; the process that made the Jews living during the Holocaust seem less than human. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel writes about his life as a young Jew trying to survive while living in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Throughout his story, multiple examples of dehumanization are shown. The Jews people begin to lose their rights as citizens. Eventually they are stripped of their identities, and are treated as if they are nothing but animals. Elie, his father, and the rest of the Jewish people were seen as not being worthy of humane treatment. Millions of Jews were murdered as if they were nothing but objects for the Nazi's to work and starve to death. Following the period of time that the Jews in Elie's community spent in the ghettos, which separated them from the rest of society, they were sent away. The Jews were transported using...
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...Elie Wiesel describes many experiences in Night where his father, other Jews, and himself were dehumanized by the Nazis. Dehumanization is the process the Nazis used to belittle Jews and treat them like an inconvenience instead of an equal individual. The Nazis dehumanized Jews by beating them, insulting them, and malnourishing them. Dehumanization was not only physically abusive to the Jews, but it was also mentally abusive to them because it caused them to question everything they ever knew about themselves and the world. The Jews that lived in concentration camps during the Holocaust were dehumanized by the Nazis by being treated like little more than objects. Stripping someone down, literally and figuratively, causes them to lose all dignity they had. In Night, Elie says, “We were naked, holding our shoes and belts”(Wiesel 36). Being naked is something that a majority of people feel very insecure about. The Nazis forced the Jews to strip down into nothing in front of everybody. This treatment is not harmful to the body, but it is to the mind. It caused them to feel all kinds of emotions, such as humiliation, shame, and more. However awful this treatment may seem, it is actually mild compared to some of the other techniques the Nazis used on the Jews. Physical abuse was very common throughout the Holocaust...
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...Brazilian educator and philosopher once stated, “Dehumanization, [...] is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors [...].” In Night, Elie Wiesel details his experiences in the Holocaust, from living in the Ghettos as a young Jewish boy who feared the Lord. Who was transported to concentration camps, and became just a number who questioned life. To finally, being liberated at the age of 16 and starting his life over as a dead man walking. During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel and his peers experienced dehumanization that changed Elie’s outlook, identity, and attitude in life. Arriving at Auschwitz, Elie experiences dehumanization for the first time. “A truck drew close and unloaded its hold. Small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes...children thrown into the flames” (Wiesel 32). Elie sees the small children being thrown into the crematorium and starts to see what is really going on. Another instance Elie...
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...Arrishen Nanthakumar Ms. Mitchell ENG 4U0 7 November 2016 Night Essay Ellie Wiesel’s purpose of writing the night was to show the world the real horrors of the holocaust. Ellie successfully created an atmosphere in which the reader can achieve a heightened understanding of the horror of the holocaust. He uses literary devices, Diction and Syntax to show how it felt to be part of the holocaust. He wrote Night to not stay silent and bear witness to the holocaust. He used literary devices such as Alliteration, Foreshadowing and Irony to really make the reader feel like they were experiencing the same things Wiesel did in the holocaust. The author used Foreshadowing using Madame Schachter. She had visions of horrible things occurring outside...
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...No Longer Human “Night” Dehumanization, a word that haunts millions during the time of the 1930s. Throughout the Novel Night, written by Elie Wiesel, dehumanization plays a major role. Wiesel portrays much of his story through similes and other forms of literary devices. Dehumanization is the process of stripping a person of every quality that makes him/her human, including his/her identity, individuality, and soul. Throughout the book dehumanization occurs in different situations, some examples are “If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs.” (24) “He looked at us as one would a pack of leprous dogs clinging to life.” (38) “He went by me like a shadow, passing me without stopping, without a glance.” (107) These similes are what...
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...people (“Genocide”). First, genocides are quite particular, and follow the same trend. They are usually associated with those of a different ethnicity or race (“Genocide”). So, those who are “different” are often targeted and killed during genocide. Next, genocide can do many horrible things to people. It takes away people's qualities, and deprives them of many things necessary for life (Stanton). Hence, people can really be changed and affected by genocide. Finally, genocide can be brought about or defined in many ways. Killing members of a group, causing serious harm, inflicting on conditions of life, preventing births, or forcibly transferring children of the group (“Genocide Fast Facts). In conclusion, genocide can be identified in several horrific ways. Therefore, because of genocide people have suffered many negative effects....
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...Everyone is guilty of dehumanizing others in some way, shape or form. In wars, dehumanization is inevitable, in fact it is central to the idea of war itself. The German Nazi government in power during World War II thought of Jews in this way, leading to the extermination of six million Jews in the Holocaust in various concentration camps. Elie Wiesel’s experience as a Holocaust survivor is documented in his memoir, Night. The theme of dehumanization of war in Night shifts from the way the Nazis treat prisoners like Elie to the they treat each other and themselves. The beginning of the story highlights the way the Nazi dehumanized their prisoners. Elie had arrived with his family at Auschwitz, then he was separated from his mother and younger...
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...What is dehumanization? Dehumanization is the act of depriving someone of human qualities or attributes. In the novel, Night, Eliezer Wiesel tells his personal experiences as a young Jewish boy during the holocaust. Jews were captured and sent to concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Birkenau; where they would experience the worst forms of torture, and abuse. Torture has obvious physical effects, but it also can cause psychological changes on those who are victimized. In the novel, Night, Elie Wiesel uses figurative and connotative language to demonstrate that dehumanization causes people to become indifferent about life or death, the victims behave less than human, and people see themselves as less than human. To begin, In Night, Elie Wiesel uses rhetorical...
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