option one # 1

Through the entire period of the Holocaust, for about four years, dehumanization took place. These men, women, and children were tortured, killed, and lived in concentration camps just because of a different way of thinking and looking. To be transferred around Germany and Eastern Europe, the many people were packed into cattle train cars, putting them on an equal level as livestock. They were treated as if they were animals, living in places that were unsanitary and filthy, getting fed old rations of food just so they can barely stay alive, and working day after day just as farm animals. Also, they got their identities taken away by having tattoos of numbers on their wrists. They were called by numbers and didn’t have names anymore. Imagine getting taken out of your house and taken from your normal life as being a regular civilian to living like a pig and being forced to be less than human. Another example of dehumanization happening was when they got blamed for the economic and social problems of Germany. With propaganda from the Nazis the Jewish got out casted from the rest of humanity. The dehumanization was organized by the Hitler and his many followers to try to get the Jewish to feel as little human as possible and to get rid of as many of the Jews as they could. They did this because they believed Jewish people shouldn’t live and they were against the “ideal” race Hitler was trying to build which was the Aryans, with blonde hair and blue eyes. This made the Jewish feel as though just because they didn’t fit these requirements they didn’t belong, and didn’t look at themselves as humans, because that was how they were treated.