Starvation, genocide, sickness. All are components of the Holocaust. The Holocaust began in 1941 where several million of innocent Jews and others died. Many people have asked why America did not step in earlier. If America would have stepped in earlier, the Germans would have started killing the people in the concentration camps more quickly. If there is a global crisis, someone must step in and do something. Some people agree with this, but others do not because if someone were to step in too soon, it could possibly make things worse. According to the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, “...there was a rumor going around that the front had suddenly drawn nearer… My neighbor, the faceless one, said: “Don't let yourself be fooled with illusions. Hitler has made it very clear that he will annihilate …show more content…
Another reason it was a good idea for the United States to step in is because of the emotion and the fear that the prisoners were facing. The main character had lost his father not to far away from liberation of the concentration camp. “ They must have taken him away before dawn and carried him to the crematory, he may still have been breathing.” (Wiesel, 106.) This is one of the main examples of the strenuous emotion that is put on the prisoners. Some people may believe that even before America stepped in the treatment of the Jews and the cruelty may have been the same even before the front drew closer. For example, “ Then I was aware of nothing but the strokes of the whip” (Wiesel, 55.) This shows that even before the front drew closer, the conditions were brutal. But the conditions were not as bad as they were when the front drew closer and closer. In conclusion, this is why America did not step in earlier, because it would have made things worse. If they did step in early the Jewish population would have decreased rapidly. This is why America did not step in