The murders inflicted on the Jewish population during the Holocaust are often considered the largest mass murders of innocent people, which some have yet to accept as true. The mentality of Jewish prisoners and officers during the early 1940s transformed from an ordinary way of thinking into an abnormal and twisted headache. In the books Survival at Auschwitz by Primo Levi and Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning we will examine the alterations that changed the behaviors and qualities of Jewish prisoners and police officers. Primo Levi recalls his intense experiences after being sent to death in a German camp (Auschwitz) in his book Survival at Auschwitz. The Nazis had rounded up Jews and others to place them in concentration camps; there the Nazis used extreme tactics to control the prisoners in an inhumane state. For example, prisoners dug holes at random times during the day and then filled them in later, were stripped of their names and given a six-digit number by which they were referred to, and were fed just enough to work. , but not enough to resist the guards. Levi and many others succeeded, to some extent; hold on to humanity during this outrageous time. Prisoner at Auschwitz and Levi's friend, Steinlauf, was a 40-year-old former sergeant in the Austro-Hungarian army. Nonetheless, he also had to deal with hunger, tiredness, the lack of polluted water and try to keep his humanity intact. He greets Levi in ​​the bathroom and notices that Levi explains that he has begun to see washing as a waste of energy and heat because, "after half an hour with the bags of coal any difference between him and me will have disappeared" (Levi, 40) . ) Instead of washing he decides “to let me live, to give myself the luxury of a moment of idleness”. (Levi, 40) Steinlauf stops Levi and explains how important he is