Thousands of individuals, differing in age, condition, origin, language, culture, and customs, are enclosed within barbed wire: there they live a regular, controlled life which is identical for all and inadequate to all needs, and which is more rigorous than any experimenter could have set up to establish what is essential and what adventitious to the conduct of the human animal in the struggle for life.
Despite the variety of people that are sent to the concentration camps, they all end up with the same routine of life. Instead of focusing on aspects of life that are complicated and that require analysis and deep thinking, prisoners in the camp tend to act more instinctively. There main goal is to survive, satisfying hunger and quenching thirst, morality is no more a topic to be concerned of. The humans are adapting to their environment trying to live the best way possible to step on others for their survival. And in a way, as the prisoners are treated inhumanly, they are assimilating to that treatment and are becoming animals themselves, only acting upon their natural instinct and taking actions that are based on individuality rather than basing them on a group. The saying that ‘humans are social animals’ is being destroyed to the point that only oneself matters and nobody else.
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