Topic > Dehumanization and polarization in the night by Elie Wiesel

An example of extermination is in the extermination camps when they used the crematorium to burn the bodies: "Do you see the fireplace over there?" (Wiesel 30). This is an example of extermination because they systematically killed the Jewish people with crematoria. Another example of extermination is when foreign Jews were killed. “When they finished their work, the Gestapo men began theirs. Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners." (Wiesel 6). This is an example of extermination because it was a systematic way of killing the Jewish people, shooting them and then throwing them into the trenches they dug. Denial was already in place when the Germans exterminated the Jewish people. An example of this is when they exterminated the Jewish people with the crematorium. This is an example because when they would kill the Jewish people and burn them in the crematorium, the only evidence left would be the ashes left, so no evidence left of the killed Jewish people. Another example of denial is when foreign Jews were killed and thrown into trenches. This is an example of denial because the bodies would have been buried or burned leaving no trace of the Jews. Denial and extermination were the