Shames Radi
Ms. Murphy
English 10 (CP) Period 3
13 June 2013
Grade/score: 94/100 Adolf Hitler 's Journey to Destructive Power Adolf Hitler was one of the most bloodthirsty dictators history has ever known. He is famous for the mass murdering of Jews. Hitler rose to power because of the Nazi Party. He was one of the best speakers of the Nazi Party, which made him rise to the position of a dictator. Elie Wiesel in Night explains his horrific experience …show more content…
Jews were at first subjected to humiliation such as having to wear a bright yellow star, having to shop at separate stores and have to attend different schools. They were later on alienated from the rest by being sent to live in the Ghettos. After a couple of weeks they were sent to the concentration camps. There Jews were starved to death, and there were many diseases because of how unsanitary and the hard labor that they had to do even during the harsh winters. All the valuables the Jews had were taken away from them. Families were split apart like what happened to Elie Wiesel in the memoir Night. When Elie and his family arrived to Auschwitz concentration camp, they were told that “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (Wiesel 29). Elie’s mother and his little sister, Tzipora went to the left line; after that it is assumed that they went the crematoriums, which is where the children, weak women, and weak men went because they were considered not worthy and beneficial enough to live. Hitler had destroyed the Jewish people faith in their God. An example of that is Elie’s “faceless neighbor” at the hospital, he told Elie, “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his …show more content…
Many people tried to take revenge on Hitler for what he had done to their country. He was “dragging Germany down into a complete state of destruction.” Hitler didn’t want to take responsibility for Germany’s downfall so he blamed it on the Germans for “not passing the superiority test.” Hitler had committed suicide on April 30, 1945 with his wife Eva Braun, which he married a day before they both killed themselves. This proves that Hitler would not let himself go down with Germany, so he decided to kill himself rather than be brave and face the enemy. The SS officers in the book Night are exactly like their leader Hitler. When the resistance came, it was described by Elie that the battle did not last long. The SS officers had fled just like their Führer. He fled by killing himself and they fled by running away from the