Primo Levi Of Auschwitz Analysis
One of the readings we read was based on an interview of Primo Levi, survived from the terror of Auschwitz. Primo answered to many questions, but the one that touched me most, and actually made light on my ideas of concentration camps and Nazism, was the answer he gave to the question “How is it that there were no large-scale revolts?”.
Primo Levi explains that prisoners were very weak from their journey, their hair cut, and their uniform all the same, therefore they would have been spotted almost immediately. Also, whoever was caught escaping, would have been tortured, and their friends and families too would have been found guilty and deported in camps to die.
I talked about this in my discussion board already, but I find it of extremely important matter. “Today’s young people feel that freedom is a privilege that one cannot do without, no matter …show more content…
I have so much option I can decide from. I would not like to die suffocated or drowned, that’s because I find myself limited, and I don’t like that. I would rather die instantaneously, like shoot in the head, with no pain. But these people here, these Jews, did not even this choice. They took everything from them. Every single thing. No clothes, no hair, no choice, no family. Because when you walk in the concentration camps, you are not even family anymore, you are one of a thousand, one of a million. And you are going to die, as simple as that, no choice in the matter.
The cruelty of Nazism was beyond anything else I have heard of. I cannot watch a kid being beaten by his or her family, imagine watching people die in a furnace. And the poor people could not even revolt against it. They were weak, without food, some of them dying during the journey, squeezed tight in trucks, with so little oxygen by the end of the journey that that was the first thing they felt grateful for when they walked out of the
Primo Levi explains that prisoners were very weak from their journey, their hair cut, and their uniform all the same, therefore they would have been spotted almost immediately. Also, whoever was caught escaping, would have been tortured, and their friends and families too would have been found guilty and deported in camps to die.
I talked about this in my discussion board already, but I find it of extremely important matter. “Today’s young people feel that freedom is a privilege that one cannot do without, no matter …show more content…
I have so much option I can decide from. I would not like to die suffocated or drowned, that’s because I find myself limited, and I don’t like that. I would rather die instantaneously, like shoot in the head, with no pain. But these people here, these Jews, did not even this choice. They took everything from them. Every single thing. No clothes, no hair, no choice, no family. Because when you walk in the concentration camps, you are not even family anymore, you are one of a thousand, one of a million. And you are going to die, as simple as that, no choice in the matter.
The cruelty of Nazism was beyond anything else I have heard of. I cannot watch a kid being beaten by his or her family, imagine watching people die in a furnace. And the poor people could not even revolt against it. They were weak, without food, some of them dying during the journey, squeezed tight in trucks, with so little oxygen by the end of the journey that that was the first thing they felt grateful for when they walked out of the