The Gestapo In Elie Wiesel's Night

The order and purpose of the Gestapo were to dehumanize, torture, and massacre the Jewish people. There were many factors that made the holocaust as horrible as it was. The modernized use of machines and chemical to kill. The Gestapo and the SS were the enforcers of the camp and it seemed that they could do anything with no repercussions. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he and his father are at the mercy of their captors, but most importantly the Gestapo. The hands of the Gestapo were the hands of destruction, degradation, and annihilation; they took the humanity of the Jews.

Adolf Hitler became the head of a political affiliation in 1921. The entity was called the “National Socialist German Worker’s party” or the Nazi party. The party expressed views such as “anti-Semitism, German nationalism, and [a known dissatisfaction] with the treaty of Versailles.” Hitler

After the Nazis took power the Gestapo were merged and integrated with many other organizations such as the SS and the Kripos. The number of assimilations caused for the jobs of the Gestapo, SS, and the Kripos to be blurred and misunderstood. Beginning in 1940 the Gestapo were the ones in charge of watching over the Ghettos of Jews that had been introduced by Adolf Hitler. They were given orders to torture, abuse, and starve the Jewish people to make them suffer as the Gestapo evolved into mobile killing squads. They later received the commands to begin to wipe out the Jews by murdering them in the crematoriums and gas chambers. The Gestapo organized and acted without a supervisor or any means of repercussion; they could get away with literally anything (Truman). In Night when the main character, Eliezer Wiesel, and his family arrive at Auschwitz; the SS immediately separate the men from the women. Wiesel would not know it, but that would be the last time that he would see his mother and