Compare And Contrast Elie And Father Desbois

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In the 60 Minutes documentary and the preface to Night, both contain details about how the Jews were massed murdered during the Final Solution. At the end of War World II, the Allied powers began to defeat the Axis powers. In an attempt to kill as many Jews as he could, Hitler executed the Final Solution. This was his plan to eliminate as much of the Jewish population as he could in a short amount of time. Both Elie and Father Desbois give insight on how the Nazi party massacred millions of Jews. Father Desbois explains in his interview how the Nazi soldiers gathered the Jews then shot them into large pits where they buried them. Millions of Jews were killed in this fashion and where often available for the public to view. Most of these sites

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