The story told in “neighbors” of the Massacre of 1,600 men women  children is perhaps the hardest to stomach comparative to any other subject in the holocaust because of the simple fact that the murders were not committed by nazi’s but by the towns people. These Town’s people lived among the 1,600 victims of this terrible crime. They were people that the jews had once trusted. It is also scary to think of how these murders occurred, as many jews were personally murdered, there was no humanity in this act, but rather inhuman methods were used. The jews that were murdered on that terrible night where ones that had gotten any dignity striped from them before they had died. The saddest part of this story is that no one in this town stood up for the jews, but rather if you didn’t participate in the murders themselves then you just turned a blind eye to them. 

Auschwitz was the biggest and most feared of the five death camps, this i had previously known. What i didn’t know is that Auschwitz was much more then a death camp, it was more a factor for mass murder, a place where thousands of jew’s, homo sexuals, Jehova’s witnesses and mental ill people. It is scary how mass murder can be so efficient as up to 10,000 people can be killed in a signal day. along with this Auschwitz holds a massive work camp (Auschwitz III), that was a contributing force for the war effort. Perhaps the most terrifying part of Auschwitz is block II, which held a vast prison, that included cells at which were only big enough for a person to stand in. Often people would be left in these cells for days, until these died of dehydration.    

In the autobiography, “COMMANDANT OF AUSCHWITZ”, Hoess goes to to explain how the “extermination of the Jews” was committed in the most efficient way possible. what hit me the hardest in this autobiography is how hoess is able to commit thousands of murders without the blink of an eye. I think that this speaks to how Hoess like many other nazi’s viewed the jew’s as sub-human. It is this manner that makes me think i ams looking at the worst of humanity straight in the face. It makes me sick to think of how so many people could keep a secret so big for so long.  I also find it ironic how he try’s to rationalize the mass murder of these Jew’s by using terms such as “liquidation”. What bothers me the most about this article is how other Jews were able to mislead the Jew’s whom were sentenced to death, although they knew that the same fate laid ahead for them. One thing that i can pick out from this article is how members of the SS viewed Hitler. Such as hoess who presumable often questioned himself whether or not this mass murder was necessary. If indeed this is try, then i think it speaks to the devotion of the SS to Hitler, as the must have viewed him as a god.  

Night by Elie Wiesel gave me first person approach to what it must have been like to live in the cruel and horrid, concentration and death cames. From reading these few pages i have come to a new understanding of what it must have been like to live in constant fear and how hard it must have been to keep hope alive when all hope seemed to be lost. It is such as the man whom was only able to stay alive for as long as he believe that his wife and daughter were still alive, once he discovered there true fate, he would never be seen or heard from again. An other example of how you needed hope to stay alive is our narrator, he relied on his father, whom with out we would have surly parished as he soon would have lost hope and the will to live. one thing that did catch me by surprise is how life changed going from a concentration camp to a death camp, i had always assumed that when you went to a death camp such as Auschwitz, you would be worked to you could not work any longer. this did not seem to be the case though as our narrator recalled, he spent alot of time doing nothing in this camp.    

Night by Elie Wiesel gave me first person approach to what it must have been like to live in the cruel and horrid, concentration and death cames. From reading these few pages i have come to a new understanding of what it must have been like to live in constant fear and how hard it must have been to keep hope alive when all hope seemed to be lost. It is such as the man whom was only able to stay alive for as long as he believe that his wife and daughter were still alive, once he discovered there true fate, he would never be seen or heard from again. An other example of how you needed hope to stay alive is our narrator, he relied on his father, whom with out we would have surly parished as he soon would have lost hope and the will to live. one thing that did catch me by surprise is how life changed going from a concentration camp to a death camp, i had always assumed that when you went to a death camp such as Auschwitz, you would be worked to you could not work any longer. this did not seem to be the case though as our narrator recalled, he spent alot of time doing nothing in this camp.    

The scene described in this caption is something that is so inhuman, so cruel that one would think it is from a scene of a terrible horror movie. The fact that these doctors were allowed to tortured , kill, so many innocent men, women and children makes me sick. What makes me even more sick is that as far as I know, there was know attempt ever made to stop these extremely cruel experiments. In the history of man kind many would agree that the holocaust was the worst thing to ever happened. I would go a step forward in saying that the experiments, such as the ones described in the caption above show the darkest, most evil side of human nature, more then the gas chambers, and I believe that the worst part of this crime against humanity is that no body never did anything to try and stop it.