A third example of how compassion affects survival is the fact that the Nazis showed no compassion to anyone in the camp. It was because of the Nazis lack of compassion that Jews were being put into death camps and being taken away from their families. Which ultimately led to millions of Jews being killed. In contrast to compassion, there were many examples of the Nazis being cold-hearted. One disturbing example is on page 32 when Elie says “Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes…Children being thrown into the flames”. If there was any sort of compassion within the Nazis, this might have been prevented. Even if the Jews were showing compassion between one another in the camp they still had a good chance of not surviving. Compassion did
