How Many People Have Too Much Power In Night By Elie Wiesel

Seventy – six years ago the first killings of Jews began in Chelmo, Poland. Not even one hundred years have passed, and people are already forgetting how devastating it was, killing over six million Jews. Quotes from Night, by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor himself, and facts and statistics illustrates how the Holocaust proves how cruel others can be, what happens when one man has too much power, and how fast humans resort to their basic instincts to survive, and that is why people should continue to learn about it. First and foremost, we know humans can be the cruelest things in the world sometimes, as demonstrated by the Nazis in the Holocaust. When they killed ruthlessly, and without regret six million Jews, and close to two million other minorities. In Night, Wiesel recalls, “He leapt on me, like

He benefited from a form of government called fascism. Fascism is a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts the nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition. Basically, if you disagreed with the leader’s ideas you were either censored, put in jail, or killed. When Hitler came to power he started World War II, he didn’t have to answer to anyone to stop him from doing it so he did, so that resulted in over 60 million people dying which was a little over 3% of the population at the time. Hitler industrialized death in this war as shown in Night, “An SS officer had come in and, with him, the odor of the Angel of Death” (Wiesel 28). They put the Jews not fit to work in one line and just executed them like it was nothing. There were also disadvantages to this though, because Hitler basically single handedly lost the war also, by declaring war against the United States and the Soviet