Night: How Did The German Army Dehumanize The Jews

Nic Lutz
Mrs. Gruehn
English 11
2 November 17
Night Essay How did the German army dehumanize the Jews? All of the Jews in Elies hometown are taken to labor camps to work. All of the Jews were fed little and were tightly packed houses. They wanted to extinguish all of the Jews. They only wanted to keep the strong Jews to do the hard work. In Elie Wiesel's book the Night, the German Army dehumanizes Elie Wiesel and the Jewish prisoners by depriving them of love, safety, and physiological needs. The Nazi army dehumanized the Jewish people by depriving them of physiological needs. The Jews worked so hard, but the Nazi army hardly gave them any food and water. To explain their lacking physiological needs, Elie Wiesel says on page 95, “I was hungry and thirsty.” By not giving the Jews enough food and water, the Nazis made sure they were weak. To explain further, Elie Wiesel says on page 96, “Someone had the idea of quenching his thirst by eating snow.” When the Jews didn’t have water, they didn’t have the energy to keep running. By depriving the Jews of
To explain how the Nazis deprived the Jews of love, Elie Wiesel says on page 91: “A terrible thought crossed my mind: What if he wanted to be rid of his father? He had left his father growing weaker and, believing that the end was near, had thought by this separation to free himself of a burden that could diminish his own chance for survival.”
By depriving the Jews of love, the Nazi army made sure that nobody would care about each other. To explain even more, Elie Wiesel says on page 29, “I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.” The Nazis made sure that to separate families so that each individual will work hard to survive. By depriving the Jews of love, the Nazi army made sure to make each individual word hard and not have to think about family and