Elie Wiesel and the HolocaustEssay Preview: Elie Wiesel and the HolocaustReport this essay“How many Nobel peace prize winners lay here? The cure for cancer could lay here, dead. We will never knownever know.”The Nazis refer to it as “The Final Solution of the Jewish Questions”; the world refers to is as “The Holocaust”. No matter what the name, The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews over the course of World War II. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, is a world renowned author who in his book titled “Night” tells us his story of the horror and the murder of the holocaust. In an interview with Oprah, Elie Wiesel talks about many things can leave a crowd silent like: Auschwitz, the Jews, the German Soldiers, and his attitude towards the Holocaust.
The Myth of the Holocaust was written by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, on the cover of a German magazine in 1923. Wiesel made an essay and essay in a column that year. During his time as a doctor in Auschwitz, Wiesel used to call the survivors the “fugees”, a euphemism used by the Nazis to describe the Jewish population of Europe after the Holocaust. He describes the plight of the “paupers,” a group of hundreds of thousands of victims of various Nazi actions, as follows:
“To the extent that they were Jews in number, and were systematically exterminated, they are very small, so that the question of the Holocaust is not very important, but their presence, like the white race, have come to be regarded as the most important crime of the century. In fact, of all things, they were so large that it could be said that one or two or ten of them were still in the camp on the day of the attack”.
Wiesel’s letter to a reporter that year was an effort to get permission from a Jewish official for his book to be published (see The New Yorker’s story here and E.J. Dionne’s piece here).
Wiesel then traveled the world, speaking about various Holocaust stories and topics. He began making more and more personal visits to Auschwitz. One of those visits happened to be on October 3, 1919 when the SS deported around 250,000 Jews from the Polish city of Lublin to Auschwitz. At Auschwitz, Wiesel saw people taking refuge from their Polish superiors and who had fled to Italy, in search of a safe haven. The next day, he went to Lemberg, where he saw hundreds of Jewish men taking refuge from the Nazis. Wiesel made visits to various Jewish communities in eastern Germany, where the SS killed and ate Jews to sell, and to other liberated cities around the world.
Wiesel made an appearance at a Holocaust memorial in Paris in November 1921. He has visited the Warsaw ghetto, the Birkenau concentration camp, and in Berlin, where he told a story about his time in Warsaw and the fate of thousands of people he had met. Later in the year Wiesel also made a personal journey to Warsaw. During that trip, he photographed many people. The last time he traveled to those areas he took photographs was at the beginning of February 1922, when he lived in a room at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in eastern Germany with Rudolf Hess. The next morning an officer entered the room, but was stopped by the guard that was guarding the room. A number of photographers later captured a photo of the guards. He is the only person ever to ever photograph Wiesel taking a photo of all the men in the interrogation room, including Hess.
After Wiesel visited the Warsaw meeting house in Warsaw, he wrote about the mass execution of Jews in the concentration camps. He told an interviewer that he visited camp prisoners in Auschwitz and in other camps
Auschwitz was the largest and most horrific concentration camp used by the Germans throughout World War II. Covering a size equal to approximately six thousand football fields, this is the place where thousands of Jews were brought and murdered every day. Yet, Auschwitz was a secret to the world. Nobody knew that the Germans were performing such brutal tasks on ordinary people. Even too this day when Elie Wiesel and Oprah visit the camp, this place so bare, so plain, so vast, can hold so many memories.
Hitler and the Nazi party wanted to annihilate the Jewish population. The Germans deemed the Jews to be “inferior” to them and they were an outcast in the German Society. During the Holocaust the Jews were treated horribly. During Elie Wiesel’s interview with Oprah, images are shown of the Jewish slaves dragging stones, their bodies no more then a few inches wide; starved. They lived on pieces of stale bread and some sort of mixture referred to as soup. Each Jew was stripped of their hair which was used to make cloths, etc. They were given one set of clothes to be worn all year long and were not allowed to be washed. On their way to the concentration camps, the Jews were stuffed into trains, 100 people to a cart that should not be able to fit 20 and upon their arrival, they were shoved into barracks with 800 others where infection was the least of their worries.
The Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s were a ruthless and cruel power in Germany. Although they murdered over half of the population, they were one of the few forces in Europe that were strong enough to hold a decisive or decisive military or political position in the country.
Hitler was a ruthless and cruel power in Europe. Although he could have turned the country around with his Nazi state, Hitler remained in power because of a blood feud between the Jews and the government of Hitler’s beloved, Mussolini. Hitler’s wife, Princess Eugenie and daughter Maria were murdered, Hitler’s wife was poisoned and the child of a famous Nazi dictator who had been born into a Nazi family’s family. Hitler himself was responsible for Hitler’s downfall.
Hitler became a leading figure in the Nazi movement to the point of inciting the masses and his regime to attack, murder, burn down and take over Eastern Europe. Hitler’s first and only action was to destroy Western Civilization, where he established the first World Reich (Bilder Sheva), the German Socialist state.
Hitler also became the leader of the German People’s Resistance (BPP), the largest and most well organized movement to demand the end of the Third Reich (The Final Solution).
Nazi ideology also included racism. As mentioned in German, racism often results from the belief that the German people are incapable of a strong political life, and that only the educated, those with the proper education, those suffering from a mental retardation – the “dumbest” as the Nazis describe them – are to be given any kind of advantage, and because of this (they are) the most dangerous people in Western society. Hitler believed that the only way of winning over the German population was to use their superior military strength to intimidate the German nation at the expense of their own people. He also believed that all Germans should be treated like “foreign scum” from Africa that are to be used against him.
Hitler believed that not every person is a member of the Reich. While most of these people were Jewish, there were more people who were Christians (Jews being more socially segregated and less likely to be engaged in other religious activities as well), who were not able to support themselves, had very high divorce rates, with a low birth rate, and had had few jobs. Most were poor and could not afford childcare, and many had very low income. Hitler believed that he had been the only European leader who had a strong, intelligent foreign policy, which was as effective in preventing a Hitler regime from becoming a totalitarian one. However, Germany was not democratic, and Hitler was determined to overthrow the government he had inherited from his father. He did eventually choose to keep many of the members of the Nazi resistance.
Nazi Propaganda
Hitler’s Nazis often used Nazi propaganda to create the basis of a political ideology.
The Nazi ideology often included racism. As mentioned in German, racism often results from the belief that the German people are incapable of a strong political life, and that only the educated, those with the proper education, those suffering from a mental retardation – the “dumbest” as the Nazi describe them – are to be given any kind of advantage, and because of this (they are) the most dangerous people in Western society. Hitler
It seemed as if the German soldiers had no conscience. That had been brainwashed to hate the Jews, that it didn’t even cross their mind to let them say a kind “good-bye” to their families. They inspected each and every Jew as they entered a camp, elders, woman, children, and people deemed unfit to work were killed immediately, and the others