When Adolf Hitler rose to power one of his main goals was to eliminate European Jews. He and the Nazi regime believed that Jewish people are to blame that Germany was corrupting and are the main cause of why they were defeated during the war. Also, they considered all Jews to be evil. When he made his speech, he convinced his people that the only solution for Germany to be prominence again were to remove all Jews starting in Germany and working their way through Poland and other European countries. As the leader of their country, German people believed him that their country will return to greatness. In doing so, the Holocaust was form. The Jews were forced to stay at concentration camps where the Nazis tortured and killed them. More than six million were murdered (USHMM, Path to Nazi Genocide).…show more content… Authors such as Stefan Zweig and Leon Ginsburg share their personal stories regarding the Holocaust and the world wars. Zweig, the Word of Yesterday, live through both wars. He feels that he is no longer part of a nation and witnesses that his country has torn apart two times. He compared the people and the soldiers on why they view the world wars differently. He describes that the European people who are living before the war are full of life and happiness, but as soldiers live through the realities of WWII happiness is only an imagination. On the other hand, Leon Ginsburg, The Ordeal, write his miserable experience in the Holocaust. Just a little boy he hears gunshots, undergo starvation and witnesses horrifying events such as seeing his mom being stabbed to death and his people getting shot and killed in the streets and houses. The tragic event did not make him hopeless, but rather became fearless and overcoming any obstacle that comes his way. The similarities between Stefan Zweig and Leon Ginsburg are striking, they never believed in peace but admire one’s
