Injustice In The Nuremberg Trials, Gang Rape And Night

In Night, Elie Wiesel talks about how a son wants to be separated from his father and how he wants his father dead because he felt that it will be a burden lifted from his shoulders. The son runs off into the crowd of imprisoned Jews, while his sick father falls behind in the line.

In Night, the point Elie Wiesel is making about survival is disheartening, giving examples of what people will do to survive and their every man for themselves mindset. While fighting to survive, numerous animalistic instincts control every aspect of how a person thinks. Moreover, these instincts make you think you must do whatever you can to survive, regardless of who you are harming in the process. Night gives an excellent example of the concept that family and friends do not matter when it comes to life or death, people with this mindset will do nearly anything to live another day. Nevertheless, there are many instances when the survival mindset is strictly internal, pushing them further than they thought they were capable of.

Throughout Night Elie undergoes hardships like many today. “I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.” His family was

In the story Night, Elie Wiesel’s refusal to take action results in consequences that affect Wiesel negatively and leaves him guilty for years to come. The first time Wiesel refuses to take action was after he and his father entered Auschwitz and his father attempted to communicate with an authority figure which resulted in a hit to the face. As Wiesel witnesses his father being struck, he stands still and questions his identity more and more until his father “guessed [his] thoughts… whispered in [his] ear: ‘it doesn’t hurt’”(Wiesel 39). Wiesel’s father’s words of reassurance are to calm Elie down because his father knows Elie felt guilt and remorse for not taking action. Yet, Elie’s father’s own actions would leave Elie feeling more guilty as he notices his father, the one who was struck, is taking more action to the act of the injustice. Wiesel drags these feelings of guilt all the way to his father’s own death, consequently further impeding recovery from the mentioned events. Elie’s father, on his deathbed, “called out to [Elie]”(Wiesel 112). His father wants Elie by his side, even if his son was to witness his passing right then and there because responding to his father was the

The repression of Elie and the other prisoners in Night caused them to seek comfort in each other and resist the SS officers by keeping each other alive. A veteran explains, “You must never lose faith, even when the sword hangs over your head” (Weisel, 29). Here an older prisoner offers advice to the new men entering the camp. By giving them this valuable advice he is increasing their likelihood of survival. A girl working alongside Elie comforts him, “Bite your lip little brother… don’t cry. Keep your anger and hatred for another day, for later on” (Wiesel, 51). Here the girl sees that Elie is in a tremendous amount of pain and tries to comfort him. By comforting him she reminds him that he is not alone, and this gives him strength. Elie

In Night, Elie Wiesel shares his experience of the Holocaust, where he loses his family and his friends. the dehumanization used on the Jews changed their views on the things they believe in. In the beginning Elie was a religious boy who never doubted God but then gradually his faith starts changing to believing in food and things he can only see. Elie Wiesel is telling readers that people's beliefs are weak and are easily controlled when they are in a

By undergoing the torture,they are pushed to the limits. Elie and his father shared a distant relationship and lacked of support. Their relationship went from an imperfect relationship to a strong bond. Their bond strengthen when they had to rely on each other for comfort. The father and son relationship displayed, “Elie Wiesel Night” symbolizes the need for human contact, a strong reliable faith and the important family bond.

Elie writes Night to show that circumstances affect one’s identity. This purpose is shown when Elie fails to save his father, and when he loses his faith in God’s supreme goodness. As Elie is put under control of the Nazi’s evil regime, he witnesses many die from being sent to the crematorium upon selection. Elie needs to remain strong to avoid selection and thereby he is focused on the meager rations of food and grueling work that are now his whole life. As survival is now predominant in Elie’s life, he no longer has time for relationships including his father. This mindset of survival is supported by the other prisoners that say that one is not able to help others if they wish to survive at Auschwitz. Elie listens to these people, and continues

The theme of Night is first shown when Elie first witnessed his father cry. His father was crying because he realized that the world was changing and they had to go to the ghettos to get ready to be sent to the camps. “My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible.” The quote means that his father was upset and cried for the first time in front of Elie because Elie’s father knew he would to be sent in

Many families suffer from issues of hunger, money, addiction, and more. But not many family conflicts lead to a family member killing another family member. This although, was a common occurrence during the Holocaust. Many of the Jews killed each other for food and other needs that people now take for granted. In Elie Wiesel's novel, Night, Elie shows the digression of families throughout the beginning, middle and end of the book to demonstrate the inhumanity of the prisoners at the camps.

In “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, two things drove Wiesel through the struggles of the concentration camps. One was the hope to get through the Holocaust alive with his father, and the other was the meager ration of bread and soup at his next meal. However, when his father died, Wiesel lost one of the most precious reasons to survive in the camps. At the same time, Wiesel’s subconscious felt slightly relieved that he was able to live without his father’s weight on his back.

His personality is changing. Elie also deals with constant beatings and witnesses terrible actions taken on other human beings that no one should see. This would harden anyone and turn them into a brute. Elie also shows his changed personality in the final chapters of the novel. Elie is looking for his father in the final camp and says “only if I didn’t find him, what a relief it would be”. Even though later Elie feels ashamed for his evil thoughts, he again shoes a brute characteristic. He is portraying that it would be much easier to survive in the camp without his father being a nuisance and burden to him. The events that Elie witnessed shaped him into a brute. Dehumanization is also a constant theme in Night, a prime example of this is when they arrive at the camps, “Men to the left, women to the right”. In this quote they treat them as if they were a heard of animals being lead to a slaughter house, these were women and children and loved ones being split up permanently. Another example in the book is when the Jews in the camps came across the crematoriums. “A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load-little children.

Pain and suffering are temporary, but family is forever. Family is one of the most important concepts in Elie Wiesel’s novel Night. Elie Wiesel’s relationship with his father drastically changes over the duration of his journey. Elie begins his experience by being completely dependent upon his father, but as he continues through the horrifying years, he learns to be independent. Even in the very beginning of his journey, Elie Wiesel’s life was dependent on a perfect stranger.

The Nuremberg Doctors Trial of 1946 is the preeminent case recognizing the importance of medical ethics and human rights specifically about human research subjects. The defendants in the trials include Nazi leadership, physicians, and investigators prosecuted for conducting unethical and inhumane medical experiments on civilians and prisoners of war resulting in extreme pain, suffering, permanent injury and often death. The Nuremberg Code, borne of these trials, establishes ethical guidelines for human experimentation to ensure the rights of subjects in medical research. Herein, this writer will first identify and discuss ethical dilemmas presented in the Nuremberg case followed by three

On 8th August, 1945, shortly after the end of World War II in May of 1945, the Allied governments entered into a joint agreement establishing the International Military Tribunal for the purpose of trying those responsible for the war atrocities. Whereas some 5,000 Nazi’s were charged with war crimes, the Nuremberg trials were designed specifically to prosecute high ranking Nazi officials with whom the authority for the commission of heinous atrocities rested.