How Hitler Almost Succeeded “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.” This is said by a dying patient to Elie in Elie Wiesel’s book, Night. This statement alone shows how while the rest of the world was trying to stop Hitler, the dedication he had to his plan of eradicating the Jewish population was so great that even the Jewish people believed that he would succeed. Despite what every other country had said they would do, none of them fully kept their word. He, however, did. Hitler and the Nazis were able to accomplish mass genocide against Jews through small steps that lead up to the 10th stage of genocide still to this day. The Nazis separated the Jewish people …show more content…
In Elie Wiesel’s speech, “The Perils of Indifference,” he says, in regards to when he believed that the rest of the world hadn’t known what was going on at the time, “If they knew, we thought, surely those leaders would have moved heaven and earth to intervene. They would have spoken out with great outrage and conviction. They would have bombed the railways leading to Birkenau, just the railways, just once.” He then goes on to explain how there were in fact many who did know. The Pentagon, the State Department, and even President Roosevelt were all aware of the suffering on the other side of the world, yet they did nothing. The quote stated at the beginning also reflects this. “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people” (Wiesel 81). Many Jews had given up on the Allied forces rescuing them at that point in the war. Even then, they had no idea that the other countries knew what was happening to them. Because if they did, then why wouldn’t they have helped them, why wouldn’t they have at least bombed the railroads taking the Jewish to the death camps, just as Elie Wiesel stated in his “The Perils of Indifference”