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* From as early as the 1600s to present day, dehumanization has been a constant battle. Slavery and the Holocaust were two of the most horrific forms of dehumanization from a history standpoint. * In today’s society, computers and machines are being integrated more and more into our daily lives. Artificial “workers” have taken over banks, automotive companies, and schools. * Tokyo has even replaced human teachers with robot teachers. Novels including Unwind by Neal Shusterman and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins show outstanding viewpoints on dehumanization. * This deprivation of human qualities and the degradation of humans happen in our day to day lives.
Body Paragraphs * The Nazis came to power in 1933 and their hatred of Jews was part of their ideology. Approximately 11 million lives were lost because of cruel racist prejudice. * Adolf Hitler grew power in Germany and started the Nazi race and army. Hitler had view of a perfect race of blonde haired blue eyed people. The Nazis used the Jews as a scapegoat and told the citizens of Germany that Jewish people were responsible for all of their problems. * They captured all the Jews and held them in concentration camps. Very few escaped and those who did not, were murdered; either by gas chamber or shootings and burned them all. * Those who did not agree with the Nazis were disgusted by this gruesome act of dehumanization. No person deserves to be treated as less than a human but the Jews during this duration were treated worse than animals.

* In the fictional novel The Hunger Games, selected teenagers are forced to fight for their lives in an arena while the entire nation watches. Leaders from the capitol who are in power use this tactic to dehumanize the people from the other districts.

* They showed dehumanization on a grand scale by assigning very little value to human life. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and

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