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Examples Of Dehumanization In Night By Elie Wiesel

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During Elie’s time at the concentration camps, he experiences the many ways that the Nazis dehumanize the Jews. The Nazis causes unhamity between the Jews and turns them against each other. During one of the passages, Wiesel learns that one of his Kapo was taken out for being too humane to inmates. The Nazis put Jews in charge and give those Jews certain privileges in order to keep them in check. As a result, these Jews become more humane than the SS officers so that they may keep their position. They treat inmates like tools to survive and nothing more. Additionally, it is not only the Nazis that dehumanize the Jews, so did the people of Germany. On the train trip to Buchenwald, German workers stop to throw bread into the the cart, as the
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