Monster Essays - Death Marches
Perhaps some of the most vivid images of the Holocaust are the
death marches, when tens of thousands of Jews at one time were paraded
to the extermination camps in Germany, Poland and Austria. Some of the
more notable death marches included the mass march from the Warsaw
Ghetto to the extermination camp at Auschwitz and the numerous marches
that occurred following ghettoization related in Elie Wiesel's Night.
Though much of the modern world may find it difficult, if not
impossible, to accept that notion that humankind can act with such
disdain for human life, the objectification of the Jews as a component
of the Nazi regime defined the acceptability ....
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