1a. Dehumanization - making them seem less than human and not worthy of humane treatment which can lead to increased violence, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide.
1b. The prisoners accepted the fact that they were going to die, some prisoners also lost faith in God.
1c.
Quotes:
- "Where is God now?"
"Where is He? He is hanging here on this gallows..." (page 62)
- "He used to pray all the time, in the blocks, in the yard, in the ranks. ... and one day he said to me 'It's the end. God is no longer with us'. (page 72-73)
- "Poor Akiba Drumer, if he could have gone on believing in God, if he could've seen a proof of God in this Calvary, he would not have been taken by the selection" (page 73)
- "In three days I shall no longer be here... Say the Kaddish for me. ... And 3 days after he had gone we forgot to say the Kaddish." (pages 73)
- "I've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He's the only one who's kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people." (page 77)
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