Santa Monica College Survival in Auschwitz Report

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In Survival in Auschwitz, Bruno Levi refers to "the double sense of the term 'extermination camp'" (27). Citing examples of "useless violence" in at least three of the works we have studied, show how the camps operated to "exterminate" the individual prior to his or her physical death. That is, how does the Lager effect "the demolition of man" (26), the extermination of "personality" in which, as Levi writes, "[we are] killed in our spirit before our anonymous death" (55)? Why is the system set up to do this? What are the Nazis and their henchmen trying to achieve by imposing such arbitrary and grotesque methods of humiliation and torture? (You may want to refer to Des Pres’s “Excremental Assault” chapter.)

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Survival in Auschwitz
Many scholars have explored the topic of human dignity, philosopher and individuals
fighting and pushing for human rights. The topic’s popularity increased, especially in the 20th
century, during which human rights observance started and became necessary. It is no chance
that the observance of human right came during this period, and more importantly after the
Second World War. During this war, people saw how cruel, barbaric, and inhuman a man could
be to another man. Among the works that capture some gruesome descriptions of inhumane acts
during this period are those of Primo Michele Levi. Using accounts of his experience in
concentration camps, created by German Nazi for its prisoners, mainly Jews, he describes a
vividly harsh treatment that he and other prisoners were stripped off their dignity and reduced to
animals as described in his memoir ‘If This Is a Man (US: Survival in Auschwitz).’ His accounts
were so horrid that despite surviving the camps, he committed suicide forty years later, in 1987.
To understand his perspective on the matter, this paper will explore how his time in the
concentration camps influence his views on the subject of human dignity
Led by their ‘supreme leader, Adolf Hitler, the Nazis were an extremist group who
believed they were a supreme race and were meant ...


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