Mans Inhumanity

Over the centuries, nothing has caused more pain and suffering for public than man himself. Through war, hate crimes, and random acts of violence, the fear of the different and unknown has made itself known in human nature. The novel Night, the movie Schindlers List and the article A Tortured Legacy are on the whole examples of this. Through the suffering of the Jews at the hands of the Germans, there is no clearer example of mans inhumanity to man. The holocaust was further more than a tragedy it is something you simply cannot describe with words.The sheer evil and hate that took place in the 1940s really simplifies what man can be like when hes at his weakest and lowest point of existence. Through the inclement slaughtering and torturing of the Jewish people, the Germans showed to the whole world what its like to be inhuman to be an animal. In the hold back Night, by Elie Wiesel, Hitlers main goal was to make the Jews feel inhuman he was real prosperous in this. The Jews wer e anguish everyday for no reason at all other than for the SS officers own amusement. The SS officers set the men as if they were animals, making them fight for food.Women, babies, old, sick, and handicapped were put into the crematoriums as soon as they arrived at the camps. They killed people for no reason, with no remorse whatsoever. Torture, cosmos treated like animals, and being burned resilient or killed were all things that led to the Jews feeling as if they were not human. Torture played a very big part in the Jews feeling inhuman. The SS officers lay the Jews very often, many times for no reason. Eliezer dialog ab aside how one day when Idek was venting his fury, I happened to cross his path.He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing me to the ground and picking me upagain, crushing me with ever more lashing blows, until I was covered in blood. (Wiesel 53). When his father was on the verge of dying he was calling out to E liezer, he was told to shut up by one of the officers. He kept yelling, and then he was beat repeatedly for talking. He then fell unconscious and died soon after. Many people inside the camps were tortured very badly, and often. All of the Jews were treated like animals, which led to them feeling inhuman.When on the cattle elevator cars, they would pass with German towns. One time a worker took a piece of bread out of his floor and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a some crumbs. The workers watched the spectacle with great interest. (Wiesel 100). The conditions on the cattle cars were horrible. Sometimes one hundred people would be squeezed into one car like animals. When people would die inside the cattle cars they would throw them out of the cars, sometimes without even being