Langer, professor of English at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, author of the article "The Dilemma of Choice in the Deathcamps," introduces us to an important and crucial concept of the Holocaust: "choiceless choice." We, as human beings face choices almost everyday of our lives. We are constantly given choices that affect us either directly or indirectly and with our morals that we innately have, we have the option to choose between what is right and what is wrong for us. Some of the choices that we make may sometimes come with profitable outcomes and at other times they may not, but at the end of time, we at least have the satisfaction that it was in fact our decision. In the article Langer "explores how the Holocaust's human domination put people in positions that strained the boundaries of moral choice again and again." (Langer p. 221) Langer cites how a "choiceless choice" did not reflect options during the Holocaust, but how victims were put in situations that were not of their choice. Throughout the article Langer cites several examples of "choiceless choice" in the deathcamps and points out how morals did not play an important part in decision- making because they were eventually lost. .
Usually when we are given choices, we are to decide between things that may be beneficial to us, but in the deathcamps things were different. A perfect example of this is how mothers of newborn children were given the choice to either give up their newborn child so that it could be killed or accompany their child to the gas chamber; which ever was their decision their child was to be murdered. Here, the mother did not really have a logical choice. Her child was still going to be killed as well as she would. She might have had survived for a bit longer, but due to the extreme circumstances of an inhumane lifestyle, she would eventually also die. This here is also a perfect example of how morals did not mean anything in the deathcamps due to how a witness of such a crime did absolutely nothing to save a newborn child.
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