Genocide Stage representation

Up to this point of the reading in “All but My Life”, a major stage of genocide that has been shown is dehumanization. Dehumanization is making a certain group out to be worth less than that of a human. This could mean treating them like a vermin or a pest, and referring to them in derogatory term. Some examples of this are when the sign erected on the factory read, “No dogs and Jews allowed.” (Klein, 1995 p. 26) Not only are the segregating Jews away from a factory, but in the wording of the sign, they put dogs first, as to show that dogs are worth more than that of a Jew. Another example is that the Germans started to control rations for people, and gave Jews a miniscule amount of food, compared that of everyone else. This shows how directly that Jews don’t deserve the same amount of nourishment that the rest of a population. Dehumanization seems to become a more and more prevalent as the book progresses.