Topic #3 There are few periods of time in history that are darker or more shocking than the Holocaust which was the mass killing of jews and other groups that hitler did not deem worthy to walk this earth. The Holocaust lasted about 12 years which is an insane amount of time for the mass killing of jews to be happening without anyone putting a stop to it. In the book “Night”written by Elie Wiesel writes about how no one in his town did anything despite the advance of the German army and Moishe the Beadle explaining what the germans are doing to the jews. The truth is, the townspeople did not believe Mosihe because no one could have ever thought that a horror story such as that could be actually be happening to the jews. The townspeople also thought that hitler was stepping down as leader and disbanding the Nazi party, so they did not see him as much of a threat as they did when he thought he was still in command. But they could not have been more wrong. The villages surrounding the concentration camps also did nothing to stop the Nazis. I believe that they did not do anything because they either did not know that the Nazis were establishing a concentration camp, or were to scared to attempt to stop them …show more content…
By the time they en figured out what hitler and the Nazis were doing it was to late to do anything because the Nazis had already established over 20,000 camps for the labor, transit, and extermination of the jews. The thought of being sent to one of those camps is enough to make any man pee his pants a little. I can’t imagine that the jews felt any differently. They knew more than anyone that any kind of revolt without help would pretty much be the annihilation of the jews who attempted, so they decided to avoid the Nazis as much as possible which is completely understandable most likely anyone in such a situation would react the same