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love510
love510
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High School - 10th Grade

In the book "Night" by, Elie Wiesel, did the Nazis dehumanize the Jews or treat them with compassion?

I need three topics how the Nazis dehumanized the Jews or treat them with compassion.

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Posted by love510 on Thursday June 4, 2009 at 10:17 PM and tagged with analysis, details, elie wiesel, night, summary, theme.

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  1. ladyvols1 Teacher
    High School - 9th Grade

    eNotes Editor

    The Nazis most definitely treated the Jewish people as less than human.  The Nazis doctors experimented on the Jewish people in an attempt to create a "perfect" superior race of man.  The Nazis also crammed the Jewish people in to cattle cars to transport them from place to place, or they forced marched them.  If one of the people fell or went to the ground they were killed.  When Elie arrived at Auschwitz he saw bodies of killed Jews being burned in mass graves.  Men, women, and children's bodies were tossed like meat into huge piles of bodies and burned.  They fed the Jewish people little food and crammed them in barracks to sleep.  The Nazis spit on the Jews and they treated them worse than the Blacks were treated in the USA during the early years of building America.

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/night-wiesel/characters
    http://www.enotes.com/night-wiesel/summary
    http://www.enotes.com/night-wiesel/themes

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    Posted by ladyvols1 on Friday June 5, 2009 at 8:38 AM

  2. love510isfail
    love510isfail Student
    High School - 12th Grade

    Love510,

    "...treat them with compassion"? Do you even know the meaning of the word?

    You and your small American brain has been sheilded from the great light of knowledge. The holocaust is a great and terrible occurence and you're completely oblivious.

    You are a failure of a child. And that is that. If I was your mother I would have aborted you.

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    Posted by love510isfail on Friday November 6, 2009 at 9:02 AM