Man's Search for Meaning pg. 41

Summary:
Victor Frankl writes a novel of what he experienced in the concentration camps. Frankl describes the whole process of the camp. He went into detail of who was able to stay in the camp and who got burned. He talks about Capos who were prisoners that had more privileges than regular prisoners. Frankl explained that they looked for "mean" people to be Capos and most of them were non-jewish. It turns out that about 90% of people go to death starting with disabled people and old people. Frankl explained that as time went on people cared less and less about the bodies and did not even acknowledge them as human beings.


Commentary:
I really enjoyed reading this book so far. I have learned far more about concentration camps from this book than in school. I really enjoyed how Frankl went into so much detail about the camps. From discussing how they had to be completely shaven to how they looked at the beauty of nature that gave them faith. The book has been really depressing and really shocking to me. These people were treated so poorly and it disgusts me how some people even deny that their were such things as concentration camps. Although it has been hard to read, the book also contains many areas of light and quotes that are inspirational and well described, such as the nature surrounding them. This is such an important book to read to learn more about the process of concentration camps and I am looking forward to reading more about it.