Night Argumentative Essay
Every great tragedy comes from the ones who perpetrate it. In Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel in 1958, Elie was a teenager when him, his family, and many other Jewish people were taken from their homes, and then transported to concentration camps where he never saw his sister and mother again. Elie explained how he, his father, and many other prisoners had to be starved, forced labor, developed disease, watched deaths of other prisoners, and much more. Throughout the years he was in the concentration camp he lost all hope, faith, strength, dignity, and almost his life. In the end, he had no family left but fought for his own survival. The Nazis are responsible for the Holocaust, because of their racial clarity
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For instance, when Wiesel writes, “The third rope was still moving: the child too light, was still breathing, and that night the soup tasted like corpses.” (Wiesel 65) This demonstrates how disgusting the Holocaust was and one of the many horrible things that Nazis had done during the times in the concentration camps. Overall, the leading cause of the Holocaust was the Nazi’s antisemitic personalities and terrible behaviors that led to the Holocaust. The Nazi’s are the leading cause of the Holocaust because of their extermination and horrible beliefs towards …show more content…
For instance, in the book night, (Wisel 62/63) writes, “Caps off!” “Cover your heads!” “Then the entire camp, block after block, filed past the hanged boy and stared at his extinguished eyes, the tongue hanging from his gaping mouth. The Kapos forced everyone to look at him squarely in the face.” This demonstrates a reason that bystanders played a role in the holocaust because they stayed silent when others had been punished or killed. If the Nazis never proclaimed the Jewish community, then the bystanders would never have been a part of Holocaust in the beginning. Although, some believe that the bystanders are the main cause of the Holocaust, they are incorrect because the Nazis perpetrated the