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Response To Moishe Wiesel's 'Night'
Night (Wiesel): Section One – Response to Nonfiction Writing Journal – TOPIC #3 The Jews of Sighet remained clueless to the brutality of the Germans, despite having multiple warnings and literally living with Nazi soldiers. The Jews chose not to believe the horror stories that they had heard and lied to themselves. While the kind facade of the soldiers was a clever trick, there were many hints to their true intentions, but the Jews just refused to pick up on it. Before the soldiers arrived in the town, Moishe the Beadle had already warned them of the cruelty and injustice he faced through the hands of the Nazis. The citizens, not wanting to believe him, brushed it off. When the German soldiers came, "with their steel helmets and their death’s

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