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A 5 page paper which examines Primo Levi's
book "Survival in Auschwitz" and discusses how the prisoners survived, the German's
plans for destruction of people, the ability of Levi to survive and his guilt at surviving. No
additional sources cited.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAprimo.rtf
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who witnessed the aftermath when the war was over. The Germans were diligent destroyers of humanity, and of human hope. With powerful, and perhaps even ignorant, attention to detail, the
Germans served to destroy men and women and all the hope they could ever possess. In Primo Levis book "Survival in Auschwitz," Levi details his life and his experiences
at this murderous and dehumanizing camp. In the following paper we present an examination of his book, focusing on how the Germans destroyed the individuals, physically as well as mentally
and spiritually. The paper also focuses on what the prisoners did in order to keep some sanity, and how Primo Levi was to be haunted forever with survivors guilt.
Auschwitz Levi states that "to destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, not quick, but you Germans have
succeeded" (150). This, in many ways, sums up Levis book and how the Germans destroyed every aspect of the individual. Right from the beginning of his book we see how
the Germans intricately fool the prisoners into believing that they should have some hope. We see this in Chapter 1 when "the Germans had inspected the camp with care and
had publicly and loudly upbraided the Italian commissar for the defective organization of the kitchen service and for the scarce amount of wood distribution for heating; they even said that
an infirmary would soon be opened" (Levi NA). However, the very next morning, having instilled such hope in the prisoners, they learned "that on the following day the Jews would
be leaving. All the Jews, without exception" (Levi NA). Nobody knew the destination, and yet they still maintained some hope, or at least the foolish did, according to Levi: "Only
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