How the German army used this deception can be best quoted from Night when the Pole in charge of the block where Eliezer was kept with other men said, "Comrades, you are now in the concentration camp Auschwitz. Ahead of you lies a long road paved with suffering. Do not lose hope. You have already eluded the worst danger: the selection. Therefore, muster your strength and keep your faith. We shall all see the day of liberation" (Wiesel, 1981, pg 5).
The work of these prisoners was to build the Auschwitz camp which was a method used by Nazis to kill Jews when they are overworked with weakness or caught diseases.
At another occasion, Wiesel quotes in Night, "we were quite used to this kind of rumor. It was not the first time that false prophets announced to us: peace in the wind, the Red Cross negotiating our liberation, or other fables. Moreover, often we believed them. It was like an injection of morphine" (Wiesel,1981, pg 80). Prisoners were given false hopes that Red Cross is progressing in trying to free Jewish prisoners from all the camps constructed by Nazis which unfortunately worked every time and prisoners ignited new energy and hope to work harder in the faith of getting freed.
Conclusion
Dehumanization was a strong product of deception used on those prisoners when they were driven to work hard for insufficient...
Eliezer and his father Over the course of the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the narrator Eliezer's relationship with his father shifts from that of a conventional father-son relationship to a relationship in which Eliezer eventually becomes the stronger of the two men. Eliezer quickly becomes a man because of the historical circumstances to which he is subjected. Growing up in a concentration camp he soon learns that his father
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