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How Does Elie Wiesel Use Denial In Night

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In chapter 1 of Night, Elie Wiesel develops the importance that delusion and denial play in enabling the Holocaust by stating that after the deportation of “Moshe the Beadle” and his brutal return,the other citizens did not believe the stories of tragedy and tyranny which the German’s have did to him and the other deportees. This gives good evidence to the main statement that denial and delusion contributed to the Holocaust. Instead of the other Jewish citizens rallying together or making efforts to escape, they all dissimulated what was happening and basically refused to make any kind of effort to escape or warn others of what was occurring. Though the Germans at first seemed like nice individuals they soon would figure the truth of what
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