“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” this is a testament of what the Jews went through during the holocaust. During the tyrannical reign of Adolf Hitler during the time of World War II Hitler enacted law and rules in placed to oppress Jews in Germany these laws would eventually lead to the extermination of the Jews in Europe almost killing them. The question is how can genocide be prevented?
Although in Night renowned author Elie Wiesel recalls the events that lead up to the Holocaust he also describes the horror within it the unnecessary deaths that takes places scattering throughout Europe. What first took place was the racism between the Germans and the Jews. Jews were looked upon as not even human being they were inferior to average German citizen. In Night Elie recalls the laws that only applied to Jews (institutionalized racism) such as
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It was easy for German officers to kill the Jews because they were already told that Jews were filthy, unclean, untrustworthy, and defiant by their superiors. Who you kill someone who you thought were all these things that was listed? Although there were German officers who were kinder than most none never started an uproar. They never questioned order in Night according to Elie and had no remorse throwing children into the furnace The fear of death made them in a fate that worse than death treated so incredibly foul. In Night as they were running to another camp Elie did not care for a friend he left behind. Also there was a time an old man and his child had fought over a piece of bread and his son had killed him. Even though didn’t lost their life they repeatedly lost themselves their state of mind. The fear of losing their life drove them on the edge to do anything losing what matters most state of mind however state of mind was