The novel, Night by Elie Wiesel, was a tragic story about a young Jewish boy, who was thrown into a concentration camp. Throughout the duration of World War 2, Elie, the boy, faced many struggles and felt the worst pain imaginable. This book serves as a memoir of what really happened to the Jews during the war. However, Elie’s story does not start from the very beginning. It all started when Adolf Hitler first came into power in 1933. Hitler’s beliefs escalated quickly to the horrors of the Holocaust. Millions of Jews, homosexuals, and disabled were killed for no simple reason, leaving the rest of the world to remember what truly did happen during World War 2.
In the early 1930s, Germans’ morales were low. Seeing as they had lost a humiliating defeat in World War 1 and the Great Depression had taken a large toll on them, they needed anything to save them and their country. Adolf Hitler ran for the leader with his National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi party for
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Even this number would be too high, though. The Nazis characterized anybody who had any past Jewish descendants as Jews. Hitler came up with a plan, known as the “Final Solution.” The plan outlined the steps to the genocide of the Jewish population. It started out very gradually with laws and protests laid out to remove the Jews from German society. The “Final Solution” led to placing them in ghettos in Poland. During this time, German killing squads would travel around shooting all Jews, no matter their age or gender. In 1942, the mass deportation of Jews began. Jews from all over Europe were forced to emigrate to one of the six concentration camps at the time, including Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau. In its totality, the “Final Solution” was responsible for the deaths of about six million Jews. These were carried out by gassings, shooting, random acts of terror, disease, and