the first step toward dehumanization is taken through language. Unsentimentally, he records that this loss of humanity was an internal process as well as an external one: shorn of their clothes, their possessions, their hair, their name, prisoners ceased to be who they were, even to themselves. In the subcamp of Fürstenstein, a fellow inmate introduces himself: “‘My name was Farkas. Dr. Farkas.’” The past tense of that sentence lingers.
