Final answer:
The text provided does not match 'Night' by Elie Wiesel, but SS officers commonly mistreated Jewish prisoners, including the elderly, during the Holocaust as depicted in Wiesel's account.
Step-by-step explanation:
The passage provided appears to be a mix-up and does not directly correspond to the Night by Elie Wiesel, nor does it specifically address the actions of an SS officer towards an old man at the beginning of Chapter 3. However, based on knowledge of Night, in the beginning of Chapter 3, the SS officers are generally involved in the brutal herding and organizing of Jewish prisoners arriving at the concentration camps, often treating them with extreme cruelty and violence. The old man in question, if this refers to an episode from Wiesel's Night, would likely have been subject to mistreatment or indifference as he was moved along with other prisoners. Without text from the exact moment in the novel, it's not possible to provide a word-for-word accounting, but the common theme is the dehumanization and brutality experienced by the prisoners at the hands of the SS.