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The Final Solution For Night By Elie Wiesel

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The Final Solution

The Jewish question had been a topic that Hitler strived to find an answer to. He had a strong hate for Jews and wanted nothing but to vanish them from Germany. His answer to this question, the final solution, was a Nazi plan to exterminate all Jews. The book Night written by holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the book Herman Goring: Hitler's Second-in-Command, written by Fred Ramen, and the journal article "Hitler's Role in the Final Solution", by Ian Kershaw, all provide an inside look on the final solution from both the oppressors and the oppressed. The final solution brought forth violence, cruelty, and split several Jewish families apart.

In the story Night, Elie, the author, and his family are evacuated …show more content…

Herman Goring was a lieutenant in the German Army in WWI, and later became a pilot. Goring had been Adolf Hitler's second-in-command since his early political days. Hitler put Goring in charge of forming the German Luftwaffe, SS, secret police forces, and ordered for concentration camps to be built. By 1942 Goring's relationship with Hitler began to vanish because of Hitler blaming him for military failures. In 1945 Goring abandoned Hitler, who made it obvious he would die in his bunker rather than watch Germany fall, and assumed that he had overtaken Hitler's power. Goring was later stripped of his ranks and ordered to be executed in October of 1946, but would take his own life before he could be …show more content…

The fact that the story was told in first person was also a benefit because it gave an inside look on how the Nazis could change a person's feelings and beliefs. A weakness from the book was the bias aspect, because it only gave the story from the oppressed point of view and not the oppressor's.

"Hitler's Role in the Final Solution" was a good journal entry because it was an unbiased article that gave an overall insight of Hitler's role in the Final Solution from the standpoint of being on the outside looking in. The article also showed the planning and the structure of the events that took place in the book Night and Herman Goring: Hitler's Second-in-Command, such as the concentration camps and the mass executions through Europe. The only negative from the article was the fact that it never gave any information on the fall of Hitler, and what happened to the Final Solution when he

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