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Levi (Hope (Hell as the Absence of Hope ("Arbeit Macht Frei"…

- - - - Work gives freedom
        
        Freedom in death
        
        "You are not at home"
        
        "The only exit is by way of the chimney"
  - - - "We knew what departure meant"
- - - - A place between moral blacks and whites
      - Making prisoners participate in the suffering of other prisoners as overseers, leaders into the gas chambers, fighting for means of survival like food, gloves, etc.
- - - - Can your humanity be destroyed/taken away from you?
        
        Levi answers "yes."
        
        "To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, buy you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgement"
      - "Meditate that this came about...carve it in your hearts"
        
        Humanity can and did do this
        
        Even rational, sane individuals like Eichmann
        
        We may mischaracterize them as insane to make ourselves feel better, as if the moral boundary is clearly defined and anyone who truly could carry out atrocity must not be "right in the head" because the terrible decisions they made shouldn't be possible
        
        We need to understand that he wasn't insane
        
        These decisions can be made rationally
        
        Humans are capable of terrible destruction
        
        Our nature, sane and normal, is capable of atrocity
- - - - Todesfuge
    - - They became conditioned to it, as they lost their humanity
- - - - No one "survives"
        
        No one is who they were before
- - - - Chases away the fog
        
        Restores color