The Dehumanization Of Majdanek

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The Nazi camp Majdanek, infamous for its sadistic nature, was the labor and death camp responsible for the extermination of tens of thousands of Jewish people and Soviet Prisoners of War. However, death was the final step in the process of the dehumanisation of Majdanek inmates. In order to address the ways in which inmates were dehumanised at Majdanek, there must first be a discussion on how and why this was possible. To tackle this, the essay will begin by discussing how Majdanek conformed to Agamben’s theory of a ‘space of exception’. It will then discuss the SS guards and what made their brutality so different in comparison to guards at other Nazi camps. Moving on, the focus of the essay, which is the physical and emotional violence and
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