Introduction
Wiesel a Jewish by identity is not clear on the reasons behind the barbaric wonders to them. The Germans thorough atrocities to the Jewish in generalized thinking was to do away with the Jewish as it was an order that had to be followed as in any fighting battalions orders are termed to be orders that cannot be bend to soot self interest other than the group mission. The main reasoning behind the inhumane act of genocide was that the Jews wanted to take over Germany and so the best way to deal would be scraping them totally.
It is unwise and of no rationale to blame any ground actor of this action as the ground actors were doing this as a way to avoid the same atrocities done to them. Wiesel is wise in this case as he avoids clearly blaming the ground actors but in his phrase that to keep silence is not possible and the way is to address what at the camp was forbidden. Wiesel in that situation purports that just like the guards who terribly act on the prisoners as directed to them by their masters in fear of the same being turned to them, believes that every individual under pressure thinks and acts on a self-beneficial directions. This is evident by the music played by violinist Juliek who is scorned by the wild behavior of humanity in the camps and soothes himself in a manner suggesting that the atrocities will once come to the end his God will resurrect. The ignorance of Wiesel to blame the guards and the reference of the whole thing to individual thinking depicts that the master of the guards and God were to blame. As the question, where is God? When all those sufferings happen to humanity, and a times he says his God has been murdered.
Wiesel speculated the motives of the Holocaust when he said I the book The Night. He says he wanted to show the end of everything including God. The motive of the perpetrators of the Holocaust was to scrap all the Jews from the civil society. The perpetrators aim was not just to loot property but also to kill. Armed militia attacked men, killed and raped women and shot the children leading to genocide. Wiesel describes how mortal human beings turned wild against fellow human beings killing them like animals. He further explores that they were so helpless that they could not get help even from God whom they used to cry to every day.
The Jews were slowly gaining political power across Europe and so the Germans feared that they could overtake and take control over the most important positions in the government. The Jews were a great threat to Hitler Nazi regime that prompted him to declare war against them. The massive killing of innocent people demonstrates this motive. If the perpetrators had no ill motive, they would have just killed the strong men and leave those who cannot fight. The author further explores the way inmates were being subjected to extremely hard conditions that lead to their death. The prisoners of Jewish origin were intentionally murdered while in prison because there is no way they could do anything while in custody.
Works Cited
Wiesel, Elie, and Marion Wiesel. Night. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. Print.
Wiesel, Elie, Richard D. Heffner, and Thomas J. Vinciguerra. Conversations with Elie Wiesel. New York: Schocken Books, 2001. Print.
Wiesel, Elie. All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs. New York: Knopf, 2005. Print.
