Dehumanization In Elie Wiesel's Night

The Holocaust, what is the true depth of the word? As sad as it may seem, it affected the lives of millions because of the hate inside of one certain group of people, the Nazi's. Dehumanization is to deprive human qualities such as individuality or compassion. Victims of the Holocaust went through dehumanization simply to make the killing of others psychologically easy for the Nazi's. Many victims of the Holocaust suffered from various experiments which eventually led to the death. Some of the experiments were things such as: sun lamp, internal irrigation, hot bath, warming by body heat, freezing/hypothermia etc. The internal irrigation system is when, "the frozen victims would have water heated to a near blistering
Hundreds, even thousands, of people died thinking that they were inferior to others because of the way they were born. My heart goes out for all the people that died during the Holocaust, and to all of the families that lost a love one. Nobody knows what it feels like unless they went thought it themselves. When reading Night the pain that the people went through is sad enough to make anybody want to take back the actions of the Nazi's. "We walked over pain-racked bodies. We trod on wounded faces. No cries. A few groans." (Wiesel, pg. 88) Although I read the horrifying facts about all the terrible things the victims had to go through, I can't imagine what it was like to actually had went through it. To watch your family be ripped apart, and then be separated and killed according to importance is something unthinkable. The process of dehumanization is so abundantly clear. Although it isn't spoken about very freely, it happened with everybody that went through the