F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about a man in a concentration camp: “He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized,” and this only reveals how sadistic the people were. Dehumanization is as simple as denying someone food and water, denying social connections, or limiting someone's ability to sleep. The people who had suffered had no freedom and it was a life filled with torment and misery. Night is written by Elie Wiesel and is a memoir. It was through the process of dehumanization, including treating Jews like animals, stripping them of their identity and being denied justice, that Hitler and his accomplices were able to break the will of millions of Jews and succeed in a their diabolical plan of mass genocide of the Jews. The Jews, known as “the final solution”. The Germans were ruthless people and took over people's identities. Eliezer said: “They tore our hair out. . . all the hairs on our body” (Wiesel 44). Men's hair in Jewish culture represents a large part of their identity. The way people dress can be motivated by religious reasons and what the person believes is right. For example, the Muslim religion requires that women not show large parts of their skin. Muslim woman where a parka to completely cover the body, and also where a hijab to cover her hair in public. It's a sin to expose so much skin in public. It is for these reasons that religion plays an important role in a person's identity. In the same way, removing hair from people's bodies turns them into someone else. People look like they want to look like. Eliezer remarked, “Their possessions are taken away from them” (Wiesel 36). The items that the Jews had brought with them were taken away. Many of these items were brought for a reason, it could be for a shipment...... middle of paper......the brutal tactic of dehuminization to terrify and break the will of much of the European Jewish population. during the Second World War. Wiesel showed us how prisoners had their identities taken away. A person's identity symbolizes many things within itself. Prisoners were treated as if they were wild animals. They had almost no food left. The Nazis left many people to starve to death. The prisoners also did not get justice. They had no rights or freedom to do anything. The Jews feared for their lives every day they stayed there. In the camp, it was endless torture. People were separated from their families in a split second and would never be able to see each other again. Elijah had suffered so much and had gotten to the point where it was acceptable for his own father to die. The Holocaust will be considered one of the most brutal genocides of all time.