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…Summary Night is a powerful, brilliantly written autobiography of a concentration camp survivor. Wiesel saw his family, friends, and fellow Jews degraded and murdered. Wiesel also says that his God, to whom he was so devoted, was also "murdered…

…Night - Faith Night is a dramatic book that tells the horror and evil of the concentration camps that many were imprisoned in during World War II. Throughout the book the author Elie Wiesel, as well as many prisoners, lost their faith in God…

…legitimate office holders and replacing them with Nazi Reich commissioners. This was the very beginning of the Nazi concentration camp system. The Nazis had brought down the German Democratic Republic legally after getting enough votes to pass…

…and also Fort Leavenworth as an instructor in officer courses. In 1918 he commanded 6,000 men at Tank Training Center at Camp Colt, near Getttysburg, Pennsylvania and was promoted to temporary major and then lieutenant colonel when he commanded the Tank Brigade…

…religion was clear in the beginning of the novel, the tragic experience in the concentration camp truly challenged the faith he once held so dear. This internal conflict to maintain or abandon his faith became clear in moments of danger and distress. For example…

…killed and Letters of Transit signed by General DeGaulle are for sale. An underground movement leader who had escaped from a concentration camp and had been chased through Europe by the Nazis wants to buy the two Letters of Transit on the black market for his…

…In September of 1942, a young doctor, his new bride, his mother, father, and brother, were arrested in Vienna and taken to a concentration camp in Bohemia. It was events that occurred there and at three other camps that led the young doctor -- prisoner…

…the daily suffering and death of humans during his time in the Nazi concentration camps. He had grown apathetic to the withering away of mortal life. However, his reaction to the sad-eyed angel being strung upon the gallows was unique in which the 'angel…

…could ever forget. The cruelness of humans is shown in both books by the merciless killings. The deaths in the concentration camps are constant and without ceasing. People were sent to die for little or no reason. When some died the other prisoners were…

…to survive the concentration camps. However the inmates were forced to give up there humanity in order to do so. Using examples in the book, describe the dehumanization of inmates that was required in order to survive.…