- What did you learn from this story that you did not previously know about life in Nazi concentration camps?
It made me gain more insights on everyday life of prisoners and the horrors they faced. It was interesting and horrifying to read about the events that occurred within the concentration camps.
- Describe an example of dehumanization in the text. What about this moment made a particularly strong impression on you? Why?
An example of dehumanization was “Several others men are carrying a small girl with only one leg. They hold her by the arms and the one leg. Tears are running down her face and she whispers faintly: “Sir, it hurts, it hurts..,” They throw her on the truck on top of corpses. She will burn alive along with them.” It shows the violence and how badly people were treated in the camp. It’s extremely sad to see how badly innocent people were treated and this text shows how these S.S guards didn’t even perceive them as humans by the way they are treating them.
Yes, this is a horrifying example of the inhumanity of the death camps.