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How The Holocaust Changed Overtime Literature

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Overtime literature has developed through time periods and events that occurred, that made an impacted on the world. Such as the holocaust, for this transformed a new era of literature that showed a glimpsed of humanity’s evilness. For Adolf Hitler strategized a complex plan to isolate the Jews through taking over Germany’s military by planting propaganda in the minds of the people. Hitler wanted to demolish the Jews because he envisioned a perfect race, so through his belief he developed a plan of concentration camps. These concentration camps killed millions of people by gas chambers and numerous other horrible treatments displayed. Hitler’s plan made the Jewish people look so inhuman and more like animals that most of the German guards treated …show more content…

However, this tragic event brought along legendary books such as: Night by Elie Wiesel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Diary of a Young Girl, and numerous other accounts. For these books demonstrated the unseen reality that millions of innocent people had to endure and face being worked to death or murdered in a gas chamber for being weak. The Holocaust was a historical event that left the world in chaos as millions upon trillions of lives were found killed through cruelty of concentration camps or just through German authority. Those experiences were developed into books that have universe literature and had given survivors the goal to prevent another Holocaust to ever happen again. The Holocaust itself changed the world, along with impacting literature and changed the literature’s view of the concentration camps.

The Holocaust destroyed millions of lives, which the majority of them took place in concentration camps that Adolf Hitler designed to eliminate the Jews. …show more content…

Although, when the World War II ended Auschwitz was later discovered to be “three camps in one: a prison camp, an extermination camp, and a slave-labour camp” (Berenbaum). The Holocaust left a devastating impact on the world through these three types of camps that eyewitness authors illustrates in their books. Wiesel shows the gruesome reality and fearful anxiety that many of the Jews experienced. As result in the ending of World War II many of the camps were later discovered and worldwide everyone saw the cruelty of the Adolf Hitler. However, Germany was taken over and they tried to “destroyed documents and dismantled, burned down or blew up the vast majority of buildings” (Bard). After the World War II ended the laws in Germany were changed and damaged for many years to come. When the camps were found by troops, they discovered “…460 artificial limbs and seven tons of human hair shaved from Jews before they were murdered” (Bard). The destruction damaged the country in all aspects that many people was suffered throughout the world. While the memories of the Holocaust still linger in the air, many survivors have been motivated to show the real story through published works of

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