Dehumanization In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

During the Holocaust, approximately 11 million people were killed, 6 million of which were Jews. People with disabilities, homosexuals, the Romani(or gypsies), and Jehovah’s Witnesses were also targeted during this time. The Nazis used gassing trucks, gas chambers, mass shootings, and fire to murder anyone in the camp that they could. Those in the concentration camps and ghettos were treated more like animals than humans and were dehumanized in every way imaginable. Eliezer Wiesel shares his story in the book Night, which contains his experience of the Holocaust. He has seen pain in every meaning of the word and struggled to survive in a world that had no faith in his, or anyone’s, survival. Due to the influence of Hitler and his policies, Jews and minorities were gradually killed and dehumanized by how they were identified and treated and in concentration camps, which …show more content…
Hitler’s power and influences as a leader led to a great shift in how the Jewish people were viewed. While resting in the infirmary of his camp, Elie heard rumors of Russia’s Red Army drawing closer and heard gunshots in the distance, but his neighbor reminded him, “‘Hitler has made it very clear that he will annihilate all the Jews before the clock strikes twelve, before they can hear the last stroke… I’ve got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He’s the only one who’s kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people’” (59). The Jews knew that Hitler’s power was unyielding and his army was the only force truly capable of getting what they wanted at the time. The communities of Germany and other European countries were so persuaded by Hitler’s anti-semitic preachings that they made no attempt to

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