Wiesel also makes clear the hatred shown by some people to others, yet nobody stood up for them. Silence was the best method for survival. The German propaganda made any act of inhumanity acceptable and silence gave them the power to do it. Wiesel’s experience has taught him that the Nazis’ cruelty distorts one’s perspective and creates cruelty among the prisoners. Self-preservation becomes the highest asset in the world of the Holocaust and leads prisoners to commit horrendous crimes against one another as they lose the humanity in there callous will to survive. Wiesel fears that this loss of perspective will happen to him, that he will lose control over himself and turn against his father. In the concentration camps, Wiesel has learned that any human being, even himself, is capable of unimaginable cruelty. He reflects on the fact of how he has changed, his innocence stripped from him changing him into a different person. A person who is so capable of great cruelty and who had to fight hard not to succumb to the
Wiesel also makes clear the hatred shown by some people to others, yet nobody stood up for them. Silence was the best method for survival. The German propaganda made any act of inhumanity acceptable and silence gave them the power to do it. Wiesel’s experience has taught him that the Nazis’ cruelty distorts one’s perspective and creates cruelty among the prisoners. Self-preservation becomes the highest asset in the world of the Holocaust and leads prisoners to commit horrendous crimes against one another as they lose the humanity in there callous will to survive. Wiesel fears that this loss of perspective will happen to him, that he will lose control over himself and turn against his father. In the concentration camps, Wiesel has learned that any human being, even himself, is capable of unimaginable cruelty. He reflects on the fact of how he has changed, his innocence stripped from him changing him into a different person. A person who is so capable of great cruelty and who had to fight hard not to succumb to the