Compare And Contrast Letter From Machau By Jim. William Cowling

The Holocaust was the mass murder of Jews conducted by the German Nazis during the years 1941 to 1945. Its main purpose was to exterminate all European Jews through concentration and death camps. But, not only Jews were held prisoner to the Nazis as homosexuals, Russian prisoners of war, and those mentally ill were also thrown in camps. In total, 11 million died in camps with 7.4 million of those casualties being the Jewish people. It was essential to end Hitler and the Nazi party’s reign, because they mentally and physically tortured Jewish people and other prisoners. Due to the mental and physical pain Hitler and the Nazi party wrongly inflicted upon its prisoners, their power needed to be taken from them. As Berek Latarus states in “A Survivor Remembers”, “ There were people in the boxcars so hungry they couldn’t control themselves. They would bite the flesh out from dead people, eat the flesh of other people who were already dead” (Latarus 68). In “Letter from Dachau”, Lt. William Cowling claims that, “ Incidentally many of the dead and living showed signs of horrible beatings and torture. It is unbelievable how any human can treat others as they were-” (Cowling 96). As these two pieces of evidence demonstrate, Hitler and the Nazis treated their prisoners in ways that greatly affected then mentally and physically. They would leave these innocent people with no food or water for several days at a time. During this time, the prisoners would grow more and more desperate eventually losing their sense of judgment and sanity. These people had to go to the most drastic of measures …show more content…
The Holocaust is still to this day a very important event in history, because it shows the horrid things that can happen when power reaches the wrong hands, and it also shows that humans will follow the wrong people in desperate