Man’s Inhumanity to Man
From the year 1941 to the year 1945, German Nazis killed millions of Jews during the Holocaust. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel recalls true acts of cruelty that illustrated man’s inhumanity.
The Germans viewed the Jews as an enemy and saw them as a threat and an overall disgrace to this earth. Due to the views of Nazi Germany their leader, Adolf Hitler, promised to liquidate them from existence. These are the things Hitler preached so that the Germans would believe him and fall in line with his orders to execute the liquidation process. Hitler did everything in his power to exterminate the Jewish race, from creating concentrations camps to treating them like pigs. There were multiple different and horrific ways of …show more content…
In this time period Jews would turn on each other in order to survive the horrible conditions the Germans put them through. While reading this novel there are real examples of how someone can be your friend one day and want to kill you the next. In the novel Night, there are many instances where fellow Jews were cruel to other Jews. In the concentration camps such as Auschwitz, there were Kapos. The Kapos were Jews that were assigned to help the Germans by supervising them while they worked and they did tasks for them. Although the Kapos were Jews like the rest of them, and even come from the same neighborhoods, they were very harsh and often beat the others just because they had the authority to do so. Another example of cruelty from fellow Jews was that they would beat you or even kill you, simply for a piece of bread and the ability to survive another day. Elie’s father says, “Eliezer … Eliezer … tell them not to hit me … I haven’t done anything … Why do they keep hitting me” (79)? The men Elie’s father had to lay in a bunk with were getting upset with him because of him being ill. Due to his illness, Elie’s father relieved himself causing his bunkmates to all have to lay in it at night. In his eyes, they were beating him for nothing, and there was nothing he could do about it. Even Elie couldn’t do anything about the situation but witness how cruel and misunderstanding the others
From the year 1941 to the year 1945, German Nazis killed millions of Jews during the Holocaust. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel recalls true acts of cruelty that illustrated man’s inhumanity.
The Germans viewed the Jews as an enemy and saw them as a threat and an overall disgrace to this earth. Due to the views of Nazi Germany their leader, Adolf Hitler, promised to liquidate them from existence. These are the things Hitler preached so that the Germans would believe him and fall in line with his orders to execute the liquidation process. Hitler did everything in his power to exterminate the Jewish race, from creating concentrations camps to treating them like pigs. There were multiple different and horrific ways of …show more content…
In this time period Jews would turn on each other in order to survive the horrible conditions the Germans put them through. While reading this novel there are real examples of how someone can be your friend one day and want to kill you the next. In the novel Night, there are many instances where fellow Jews were cruel to other Jews. In the concentration camps such as Auschwitz, there were Kapos. The Kapos were Jews that were assigned to help the Germans by supervising them while they worked and they did tasks for them. Although the Kapos were Jews like the rest of them, and even come from the same neighborhoods, they were very harsh and often beat the others just because they had the authority to do so. Another example of cruelty from fellow Jews was that they would beat you or even kill you, simply for a piece of bread and the ability to survive another day. Elie’s father says, “Eliezer … Eliezer … tell them not to hit me … I haven’t done anything … Why do they keep hitting me” (79)? The men Elie’s father had to lay in a bunk with were getting upset with him because of him being ill. Due to his illness, Elie’s father relieved himself causing his bunkmates to all have to lay in it at night. In his eyes, they were beating him for nothing, and there was nothing he could do about it. Even Elie couldn’t do anything about the situation but witness how cruel and misunderstanding the others