Examples Of Dehumanism In Night By Elie Wiesel

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, both the german SS soldiers and their fellow Jews act in a variety of ways to dehumanize those laced into the concentration camps. First off, the Jews were called many things by the SS; sometimes the SS even called the Jews people. However, the things that the SS called them were also terrible such as on page 85 where the text states, “Faster you tramps, you flea ridden dogs!... Faster you filthy dogs!”