After The Truth Ethos

There is a part where we watch as humans are so ugly that it is hard for us to imagine that what they had done is possible. Liesel is playing soccer in the park and all of a sudden all the kids stop because of a noise they hear coming down the street. They think it could be a herd of cattle, but that not what it is. It is a group of Jewish people being led, or forced, to the death camps by German soldiers. On there way we watch a man die “He was dead. The man was dead. Just give him five minutes and he would surely fall into the German gutter and die. They would all let him, and they would all watch”(Zusak 393). This is talking about how when a Jewish person would die, the Germans wouldn’t do anything. They wouldn’t care that a man died right in front of them. While the Jews are walking Hans, Liesel adopted father, gives them bread. While Hans is giving this man bread a German soldier notices what is going on. He walks over to the man and, “The Jew was whipped six times. On his back, his heart, and

'He who has a why to live for can bear any how.' The words of Nietzsche begin to explain Frankl's tone throughout his book. Dr. Frankl uses his experiences in different Nazi concentration camps to explain his discovery of logotherapy. This discovery takes us back to World War II and the extreme suffering that took place in the Nazi concentration camps and outlines a detailed analysis of the prisoners psyche. An experience we gain from the first-hand memoirs of Dr. Frankl.

Ethos is displayed in this speech by what had happened, but no one doing anything about it. “When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irreverent (“Elie Wiesel - Acceptance Speech”). When anything life threatening happens the world acts like nothing is going on and lets it continue until after it is over with and people's lives are taken. Pathos is brought up in this speech by showing how harmful and horrible this time was. “Violence and terrorism are not the answer. Something must be done about their suffering, and soon.(“Elie Wiesel - Acceptance Speech”).” Everything that is happening caused so much suffering from people being violent and no one putting a stop to any of the injustice. Wiesel states facts about what he remembered from when he was younger and got put into the camp. “The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed (“Elie Wiesel - Acceptance Speech”).” Wiesel remembers everything that had happened to him and what the nazis were doing to everyone as if it was yesterday or eternities ago. All in all, Wiesel displayed all the rhetoric meaning in his

By Wiesel’s use of Pathos he strengthens the emotional side of the speech to assert the deeper thoughts and feelings during the Holocaust. The deeper emotions and grief are shown as Wiesel tells the audience, the humiliation he went through. “I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation” (Wiesel 7). Wiesel uses Pathos to show the grief to his audience about

Lawmakers in Florida voted on whether or not they should change the state’s death penalty statute. The death penalty system in Florida is a bit different than it is in other states. Instead of the jury deciding who is given the death penalty, the judge decides. The new bill that was passed stated that at least 10 out of the 12 jurors had to recommend the death penalty, not just a majority. A judge in Alabama, “ruled that her state’s capital sentencing setup was unconstitutional.” The judge said judges are overriding jury recommendations when it comes to the death penalty. Alabama attempted to halt an inmate’s execution because of the similarities it had to the Florida system that was shut down. After hearing these things about both Alabama and Florida, Utah actually abolished the capital punishment. Due to the changes being made, two different executions that were supposed to occur this month were put on hold.

Mengele. Dr. Mengele was a German officer at Auschwitz and was often referred to as the “Angel of Death” (Gutman, 2). He is known for his horribly unethical experiments performed on prisoners and immense number of bodies killed in Auschwitz. Mengele treated the majority of his patients ruthlessly, with no remorse, and as objects for his destruction. He was also known for his bad temper and was seen beating prisoners with metal poles, burning them alive, and shooting them. The only patients he treated less horrifically were twins, which he found to be enticing. Mengele would provide them with clean clothes and regular meals in order to strengthen them, and once they were healthy he would perform horrific surgeries on them (Schmittroth, 315). How Dr. Mengele treated the prisoners in Auschwitz would have an extensive influence on the difficulties they had

In his memoir “Night”, Elie Wiesel gives his account of events that took place during the holocaust. Historical records confirm that the holocaust was an undesirable experience for the victims who had to go through physical torture. In his memoir, Wiesel gives gruesome accounts of the different threats prisoners faced at the Nazi concentration camp. Clearly, the psychological threats seemed to wear the prisoners down more than the physical ones, nevertheless, the prisoners adopted physical unresponsiveness and emotional numbness to protect themselves from both threats, however, Wiesel carefully selected the two execution scenes to strengthen the pathos of his memoir, and to show that sometimes even emotional numbness fails to shield one from

The usage of Ethos was very evident as James McBride developed his credibility through explaining his mother’s life story from her childhood to adulthood. He explained it with great detail and description that it would make the audience know that what he is saying was accurate. James McBride incorporated his mother’s point of view, which she gave a mini biography of her childhood stating, “I was born an Orthodox Jew on April 1, 1921, April Fool’s Day, in Poland. I don’t remember the name of the town where I was born, but I do remember my Jewish name, Ruchel Dwajra Zylkska” (1). Her quoted interview proves that McBride has credibility on his mother’s life because the beginning of the memoir, he wanted the reader to understand that he knew how his mother was brought up because of the intense research that he performed to write the memoir.

Wiesel and other Holocaust victims first believed leaders of the free world were not aware of what was happening in the camps. He appeals to the logic of the audience because he makes them think about how it is only logical to help those in need, especially on this large of a scale. He states, “If they knew, we thought, surely those leaders would have moved heaven and earth to intervene.” When people see suffering, they should do what they can to stop it.

The Crimes Against Humanity The definition of dehumanization is the deprivation of human rights or attributes. During a span of 12 years, the Nazis killed 11 million people and 6 million of those people were Jewish. Hitler sent approximately 11 million people to the concentration camps. In prison camps, guards forced the prisoners to do hard physical labor.

In this scene from Night, Elie Weisel writes about the ways the Germans treat the prisoners when they arrive at Auschwitz. In this scene, Weisel teaches his reader how the Germans brutalize their prisoners. Weisel describes the Germans as “beating” the prisoners repeatedly and forcing them into “disinfection,” this is similar to how one wouuld treat an object or animal, not a human being. This reflects the brutalizing of the prisoners. Elie writes about how as the prisoners were running they “threw” clothes at them and in that moment they had “ceased to be men”. Weisel also writes about how Meir Katz, “wore a child’s pants” and how Stern, was “floundering in a huge jacket.” The Nazis did not give the prisoners the proper clothes and threw the

The Nazi’s discrimination towards the Jews is also a very cruel act that most people are not capable of understanding the reason why they did it. The signs of discrimination are shown in the film. The Nazis let them run around naked during the medical

The life story of Josef Mengele is one that is filled many twists and turns that play out like a suspense story with an ending that does not seem to fit what one would expect. The authors of the book Mengele: The Complete Story, Gerald L. Posner and John Ware, wrote this book largely with information taken from diaries and letters of Mengele’s, and interviews with those who knew him. It is a look into the life and times of a man whose nickname was “The Angel of Death.'; Josef’s life and post-mortem fate could be divided into three different chapters. His pre-war life and life during World War II was one of privilege and freedom to satisfy his perverse desire to perform bizarre and mostly useless medical

In the Auschwitz documentary Kitty Hart-Moxon gave an explanation of what had occurred during the Holocaust; selection and explains how to survive. Kitty Hart-Moxon stated, “When you arrived on the train, women and children and the elderly were sent directly to their death in the gas chambers. You could hear people suffocating for about twenty minutes, and then it was over” (Documentary: A Day In Auschwitz). If you weren't fit and didn't pass the selection test you were considered weak, and got put to your death. In the Auschwitz documentary Kitty Hart Moxon explains if you passed the selection “You were stripped down of your clothes and valuables, your hair was shaved off….and you would be tattooed with a number.” (Documentary: A Day In Auschwitz). Now, comparing the Auschwitz documentary to the excerpt Night, Elie Wiesel focused on one subject: selection. “ We knew what it meant. An SS would examine us.. to see if we were fit enough.” (Wiesel 308). The victims and prisoners went through a selection process. Men were separated from women along with children. A Nazi, usually an SS physician, looked quickly at each person to decide if he or she was strong and healthy enough for forced labor. The SS officer then selected the weak; victims did not know that individuals were being selected to live or die. Carefully examining both of the mediums subjects, the Auschwitz documentary had a wide

The Nuremberg Doctors Trial of 1946 is the preeminent case recognizing the importance of medical ethics and human rights specifically about human research subjects. The defendants in the trials include Nazi leadership, physicians, and investigators prosecuted for conducting unethical and inhumane medical experiments on civilians and prisoners of war resulting in extreme pain, suffering, permanent injury and often death. The Nuremberg Code, borne of these trials, establishes ethical guidelines for human experimentation to ensure the rights of subjects in medical research. Herein, this writer will first identify and discuss ethical dilemmas presented in the Nuremberg case followed by three