According to the hierarchical nature by Abraham Maslow, from the more fundamental to less, people seek their needs in physiological, safety, belonging, esteem and self-actualization. He also stated that a person will tend to abandon the higher needs in order to pay attention to sufficiently meeting the lower needs.
In The Night Trilogy, Nazis started holocaust toward Jews by taking away the needs of them in the top part of the Hierarchy model - Self-actualization and esteem. They began marking Jews with unique yellow starts on their apparel to distinguish them from other people. Then they moved down toward belonging and safety where they took away valuable stuffs from Jews and moved them into Ghetto, away from their home. Jews were also separated with their families by lots of segmentation processes. Later on, Nazis abused physiological needs of Jews as well. They were tortured with cruel discrimination, punishments and experiments. Later when their physiological needs were threatened, their esteem or anything else was long gone. Jews were busy taking care of themselves, holding on to own life, and the survival from all cruel treatments they faced in the death camp.
In the real life and in the normal life, people are focused on keeping their esteems. But as the condition worsen, their instinct move focus down to their belongings, safety, and oneself. Once people reach the lowest poverty they could ever reach, they are no long aware of what others would view them. They hold on to whatever jobs they can in order to survive. Once you lose everything you have, there would be nothing more important than safety itself. People would seek for any place that they could safely spend over the night. At the very end, humans are driven so desperate and/or insane when their health, food, sleep, or whatever that are necessary for survival becomes vulnerable.
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