Summary Of Elie Wiesel's Night

This section did not have hope in it unlike the past section. However, I was able to get more of a perspective of how activities ran in Auschwitz and all the other camps intermingled within it. I found that the section had only a few parts that were disturbing, but for the most part, I find that the author of the book is increasingly likeable. Although he has guilt for some of his orders, it is a significant contrast from the guards in charge whom do not care about any prisoner. What I found to be very reprimandable is when Nyiszli gave the female prisoners medicine to take back to their shacks. If he could help someone in anyway without drawing attention to the situation, Nyiszli would do it. He really wants to help people, especially the men in the crematoriums. In this section also, he proves a point that he knows what he is talking about and pokes fun Mengele. Since Mengele was not an actual doctor or scientist, Nyiszli had to work harder to convince him that he was right. Miraculously he did, but a part of me believes that Mengele knew all along Nyiszli was right because he allowed him to perform an autopsy on a Nazi guard. Outside of the camp this would be allowed since there was a law forbidding Jewish doctors from having Aryan patients. What I do not

There was a part where Mengele is not sure why so many people are dying of diarrhea. Nyiszli makes it clear that so many aspects of the camp are a sure fire way of causing it. This camp was open for a few years before Nyiszli was shipped there. There must of been many deaths of diarrhea before also, but why did Mengele have no idea why it was happening? It does not take a genius to understand why it happens or causes it. I am not sure if Mengele was just too dumb to see why, or perhaps, Mengele knew all along and wanted to see if Nyiszli knew as well. I cannot tell because Mengele is an untrustworthy