Night Humanity
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'Night' depicts mankind at its most depraved, stripped completely of it's humanity, of its veneer of civilisation. Discuss.
In the 1940's, Hilter came into power and soon after Germany began invading countries throughout Europe. Viciously the Germans exterminated those who did not meet their criteria of their perfect race. The world saw the ethnic cleansing as inhumane and immoral. However, the suffering that the Jews, represented in this book by Elie Wiesel, underwent could not be imagined by the outside world. Night explores the devastating conditions that were survived by the Jews. The harsh conditions that built from the ghettos and culminated to the concentration camps stripped the victims completely of their humanity. The treatment they received were sub humane levels and the only way to survive was to respond in a manner that the circumstances forced upon the prisoners. The Nazi's reduced the Jews to the very primitive and basic traits of human beings...