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Indi Difference In Night By Elie Wiesel

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The indifference in WW2 was a major tragedy towards Jews & German citizens. Indifference is a lack of interest, concern, or sympathy. The Jews didn’t have any sympathy from the rest of the world. The Germans were very indifferent to the Jews. Indifference played a role in the Holocaust, including The Indifference of people towards death, The Germans indifference to the suffering of Jews and, the Jews indifference to Nazi occupation.

First of all, the indifference of people towards death played a role in the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was speaking at the White House in 2000 about “The Perils of Indifference”. He was explaining the world's indifference to Jews. The world’s disregard towards the SS troops. The speech states that “And that ship, …show more content…

Wiesel discussed in the Night book how the Jews were being treated by the German troops and Hitlers Secret Police. In the early years of the war, before Wiesel was transported to Nazi Germany , many of his comrades were deported. The first group was brutally murdered. Wiesel states in Night: “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (Wiesel Night 6). The only reason we know that the infants were tossed into the air was because of Moishe the Beadle. As of a result of being left for death. He came back and attempted to tell them the horrors. No one listened. After that everything hit the fan. Jewish shops, people's lives, hard earned money and hard work down the drain. When the Nazi’s stripped them of everything. The German Government, aka Hitler, sent out statewide pogroms. The Perils of Indifference speech by Elie Wiesel states, “after the first state sponsored pogrom, which hundreds of Jewish shops destroyed, synagogues burned, thousands of people put into Concentration Camps” (Wiesel The Perils 16). The result of peoples lives being turned upside down The Jewish people finally began to see how Hitler was actually working. The Germans' indifference to the suffering of Jews was a spotlight on Jewish shops, Jewish homes and their religious

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