Dehumanization

Dehumanization: Making the enemy think that they do not deserve humane treatment by portraying them as wicked or threatening.

1) In the beginning, the prisoners felt hope and prayed a lot. They hoped that God has them in these camps for a reason. Now, they are starting to accept the fate that they were going to die sooner or later because that's what Hitler promised. The patient in the hospital said that he would trust Hitler's promise more than God.

2) Eliezer now contemplates about his views on God. The rest of the prisoners still pray to God and think that all of this happening is for a reason. Eliezer wonders why God is doing this to them in the first place. He thinks it's God's fault that this is all happening, and he isn't doing anything to stop it.



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Who chose is from among the races to be tortured day and night, to see our fathers, our mother, our bothers, end in the crematory? (Page 64)

My neighbor, the faceless one, said: "Don't let yourself be fooled with illusions. 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. (Page 77)

And I, mystic that I had been, I thought: "Yes, man is very stronger, greater than God. When You were deceived by Adam and Eve, You drove them out of Paradise. When Noah's generation displeased You, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom no longer found favor in Your eyes, You made the sky rain down fire and sulphur. But these men here, whom You have betrayed, whom You allowed to be tortured, butchered, gassed, burned, what do they do? (Page 64)

The three victims mounted together onto the chairs. The three necks were placed at the same moment within the nooses. "Long live liberty!" cried the two adults. But the child was silent. "Where is God? Where is He?" someone behind me asked. (Page 61)

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. (Page 77)

The thousands who had died daily at Auschwitz and at Birkenau in the crematory ovens no longer troubled me. But the one, leaning against his gallows---he overwhelmed me. "Do you think this ceremony'll be over son? I'm hungry . . . ." whispered Juliek. (Page 59)