Night By Elie Wiesel And The Book Thief By Markus Zusak

World War II (WWII) was the most expensive and deadliest war recorded in history. During WWII millions of people were killed, tortured and starved to death. There were bombings that killed entire towns of people, concentration camps where the concept was work or die and many more atrocities. The books Night by Elie Wiesel and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, show different perspectives of the many tragedies and deaths during WWII.

The 1940s was a hard time for many Europeans, especially the Jews. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party, he believed that the Jews were responsible for Germany's financial problems after World War I, as a result he committed genocide on the Jews. During this time Germany was a very prideful place, Frau Diller

First, many were put into ghettos, or small fenced in neighborhoods. Most of these ghettos were locked so the Jews were unable to make contact with the outside world. Then they were loaded into trains cars overflowing with people and made to spend several days starving and squished before they would end up at a work camp or a death camp. Women and children would be sent to the furnace while men would be starved and worked to death. People would be made to dig their own graves and babies would be thrown up in the air and used as target practice by the Nazis. They did terrible things to the Jews, and after the Nazis surrendered to the allies they would pay for the many gruissem and repugnant things they did to the

He had 2 brothers Karl and Alois. His family was wealthy and he was a strict catholic. His strict catholic upbringing could be why he despised the Jewish race. He graduated with a phD in Anthropology, shortly after he became interested in the Racial Ideology of Alfred Rosenberg. At the age of 26, joined the Nazi party. This was only the start of his notorious career as a Nazi. Durning WWII Josef Mengele became known as the Angel of Death, he worked at the Auschwitz concentration camp and decided who would be sent to the furnace and who would be worked to death. During his time working at Auschwitz, Dr. Mengele took a special interest in twins. He did experiments on twins such as amputating limbs, infecting them with diseases or giving them blood transfusions. All of these things would have gotten Dr.Mengele assassinated after the war but he ran away and nobody knew where he was. After the war, Dr.Mengele had to live his life in hiding. He first worked as a farmhand in Europe, but it was too dangerous for him there so under a fake name, Dr. Mengele sailed to Argentina. He started a family, got into trouble and later died of a stroke while swimming. This was the infamous life of