"They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions" (Wiesel). In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, a victim of the Holocaust, shares his gut-wrenching experiences and how he survived one of the worst death camps, Auschwitz-Burkenau. While some may argue that topics surrounding Night and the Holocaust are too heavy, it is vital to learn about Adolf Hitler's manipulative control of people, about the Jewish race, the torturous living conditions of the concentration camps, and what happened to the victims after the camps were finally liberated. At the start of the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler used manipulative control to …show more content…
"Hitler secured the support of the army with the Rohm purge of June 30th, 1934. He abolished the presidency and proclaimed himself "Füher of the German people" ("Adolf Hitler"). In Germany, the Great Depression was occurring, so he made it his goal to improve the country, but he never said how. He used manipulative ways to get people on his side, which allowed him to be in control of the nazis, further pushing his violent plan along. One way Hitler wanted to improve Germany was to decrease the population and get rid of the Jewish race peacefully. When that did not work, he resorted to mass murder. "The Final Solution was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annulation of European Jews. Hitler authorized this European-wide scheme for mass murder" ("Wansee Conference and the Final Solution"). The Final Solution was Hitler's idea, and since he had so many people's support (Nazis), it did not take much to convince them that a mass murder of innocent people was a good idea, once again manipulating the country. Adolf Hitler's manipulative control was the reason the Holocaust began, and he was able to brainwash people into thinking Jews were