Hitler eventually won power by democratic means and he eliminated all opposition and launched an ambitious program of world domination and elimination of the Jews. Hitler had a four year plan. Which was the revitalization of the German army and economy within four years in anticipation of war. Led to the Final Solution, which was to exterminate the Jews. The Nazi Party was to rise power and racism was an anti-jewish legislation. A lot of jews ended up dying due to the fact of Hitler’s plan.
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Map of Concentration CampsConcentration Camps is a place where people are sent to be detained or confined without having trial. Being in harsh conditions without any rights.
"Visit"The visit to Auschwitz was really hard. Seeing where the Jews were killed and being punished was devastating. It was really heartbreaking seeing all of the baby clothes, shoes, and other accessories. It broke my heart just stepping into the place. Knowing that they had no choice but to be killed and murdered, yet they weren't even expecting it. It was overwhelming walking by the gas chamber. Seeing all of the suitcases that they packed thinking they were being relocated when actually they were sent to death camps. It gave me chills.
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Elie Wiesel's DocumentaryIn May 1944, the Nazis deported 15-year-old Wiesel and his family to Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland. Wiesel’s mother and the youngest of his three sisters died at Auschwitz, while he and his father later were moved to another camp, Buchenwald, located in Germany. Wiesel’s father perished at Buchenwald just months before it was liberated by Allied troops in April 1945. Following the war, Wiesel spent time in a French orphanage, studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and went on to work as a journalist in France. In the early 1950s, he broke a self-imposed vow not to speak about the atrocities he witnessed at the concentration camps and penned the first version of “Night” in Yiddish, under the title “Un di Velt Hot Geshvign” (“And the World Remained Silent”). At the encouragement of Nobel laureate and prominent French writer Francois Mauriac, Wiesel reworked the manuscript in French. However, even with Mauriac’s help in trying to land a book deal, the manuscript was rejected by multiple publishers, who believed few people at the time were interested in reading about the Holocaust. The book was eventually released in 1958 as “La Nuit”; an English translation, “Night,” followed in 1960. Although initial sales were sluggish, “Night” was generally well reviewed and over the decades gained an audience, eventually becoming a classic of Holocaust literature that has sold millions of copies and has been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2006, TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey selected “Night” for her famed on-air book club, and traveled with Wiesel to Auschwitz for an episode of her show.
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