In looking back upon his experience in Auschwitz, Primo Levi wrote in 1988: "It is naïve, absurd, and historically false to believe that an infernal system such as National Socialism (Nazism) sanctifies its victims. On the contrary, it degrades them, it makes them resemble itself." (Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, 40). The victims of National Socialism in Levi's book are clearly the Jewish Haftlings. Survival in Auschwitz, a book written by Levi after he was liberated from the camp, clearly makes a case that the majority of the Jews in the lager were stripped of their human dignity. The Jewish prisoners not only went through a physical hell, but they were psychologically driven under as well. Levi writes, "
the Lager was a great machine to reduce us to beasts
We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death
" (Levi, 41). One would be hard pressed to find passages in Survival in Auschwitz that portray victims of the camp as......
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