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The Jews were dehumanized in many ways by the Nazi’s. Dehumanization is making humans feel like less than people. Three ways the Nazis dehumanized the Jews was by starvation, being treated like animals and, physical abuse. Here are examples of all three of those dehumanizing methods. The first way the Nazis dehumanized Jews was by treating them like animals. They did this in many ways. One way was by putting 80 people in a cattle car. “ The police made us climb into cars, eighty persons in each one”(pg.22). The Jews couldn’t move at all, they also had limited food and water. Another way they were dehumanized was that they had to go the bathroom in the corner of the cattle cars. This is dehumanizing because the Jews feel like they are being completely insulted. Another example of being treated like animals was that after someone was killed Eliezer said “That night the soup tasted of corpses”(pg.65) This means that the Nazis didn't care about the jews. This also shows the Nazis did it on purpose to make the jews feel bad about eating, even though they have to if they want to survive. That is how the Nazis dehumanized the Jews. The Nazis also dehumanized the Jews by starving them. This was very effective because it would make the jews very weak and would make them do anything for food. One example of the Nazis starving the jews would be when somebody was being hanged one of the prisoners said to Eliezer “this ceremony, will it be over soon? Im hungry…”(pg.62) This shows how desperate the Jews were food. That is one example of how the Jews were starved. Another example of how the jews were starved one night after a prisoner was hanged Eliezer said “That night the soup tasted of corpses”(pg.65). This shows that even
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though they knew they were eating someone they had to do it to survive. That is how the Nazis starved the Jews. The jews were also being dehumanized by being physically abused. This was a very common occurrence in the

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