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Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

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The Dehumanization of Jews
Dehumanization is the process by which the Nazis gradually reduced the Jews to little more than things. In Night By, Elie Wiesel, Eliezer, his father, and the other Jews were dehumanized over time to they became nothing to the SS officers. In the first part of Night Moshe the Beadle was thrown onto the first load of cattle cars and sent off.( Night pg. 6) “They stopped the cattle car that Moshe was on, and the officers made the Jews dig a big trench and then the shot and killed them. The officers used the Jew babies as target practice, throwing them up in the air and shooting them down. Moshe had got shot in the leg and faked his death so he went back home to sighet. Moshe told the whole town but no one would believe

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