Man's Search for Meaning | Short Essay Answer Key

Short Essay Answer Key

1. In the first section of the text, "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what groups does Frankl identify within the concentration camp? Which group does he focus on? Why?

Frankl writes of the SS men, the Capos (prisoners who were chosen to act as the guards of other prisoners), and the "ordinary prisoners." He focuses on ordinary prisoners because outsiders do not understand the "hard fight for existence which raged among the prisoners."

2. In "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," what does Frankl write happened when a train was prepared to transport prisoners?

Frankl writes that because prisoners understood that transport might be destined for the gas chambers (he asserts this was "a fairly good guess"), they fought among themselves not to have to board the train, even though "everyone knew that for each man saved another victim had to be found."

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