Depictions of a Holocaust

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This paper compares main themes in Elie Wiesel's "Night" and Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf". It looks at how, although these two books would appear to have nothing more in common than the fact they both speak of the Holocaust, there are common threads tying them inevitably together. It explores how Wiesel is, of course, more justified in his anger; but an understanding of the causes leading Hitler to his anti-Semitism show that these two men were more alike than many would believe.

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"The culprit was once an Austrian youth whose mother was doctored by a Jewish man, a money-grubber who would not cure her cancer but sent her home to die, to leave her only son an orphan; the child whose only dream was to be an artist but was rejected from the Academy by a board comprised of French Jews. This young man, whose heart was broken countless times, whose dreams were shattered, whose life became that of an orphan, a destitute vagrant "could he not also look to the ruins of his life, the culprits behind the destruction of his world "a handful of Jews" and feel unadulterated hatred""

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