Man's Inhumanity to Man

             Over the centuries, nothing has caused more pain and suffering for man 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 Schindler's List and the article A Tortured Legacy are all examples of this. Through the suffering of the Jews at the hands of the Germans, there is no clearer example of man's inhumanity to man.
             The holocaust was far more than a tragedy; it is something you simply cannot describe with words. The sheer evil and hate that took place in the 1940's really simplifies what man can be like when he's at his weakest and lowest point of existence. Through the merciless slaughtering and torturing of the Jewish people, the Germans showed to the whole world what it's like to be inhuman; to be an animal.
             In the wild, creatures kill for food and survival. In the death camps of Auschwitz, there was killing simply because of a difference of beliefs. The German Nazis believed that the Jewish people were responsible for their people's suffering, that because they came over to Germany and thrived, they were effectively killing off the German people. With the aide of propaganda, Hitler and his followers convinced everyone who was willing to listen that the Jewish people must be stopped, that they weren't even humans; that they were sub humans. "Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us." [p.30] Is a quote from the book Night, which was spoken by a man who was about to be sent to the gas chambers, and it sums up the entire holocaust. In the movie Schindler's List, people are being shot for no reason at all. One such instance, a woman is shot for simply walking down the street. If that's not inhumane, then what is?
             Not all the Jews were lucky enough to be gassed or shot in the head. Many of them went to concentration camps where they
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