Five things you learned from your book
1. The intense brutality of the Nazi's. They lead a whole group of people right to the door of the ovens and then they turned and lead them to the barracks. That is just beyond cruel, to make everyone think they're gonna die, just to redeem them, so they can see their friends and gasses and burned to ashes.
2. 2/3 of all European Jews were killed, see my other post for a deeper look at that. But really think about how many people that really is. 6,000,000 is a very big number, imagine how many children and grandchildren they could have had, had they not been killed.
3. At first no one thought anything bad was gonna happen, he talks about how initially they had befriended the German soldiers. And when someone brought news of the horrors no one believed them until they came to take them too.
4. An estimated 1.1 million children were murdered and many witnessed the murders of their parents right in fount of them.
5. When the Red Army drew very near all of the prisoners were taken on a death march where a great deal of them died from the cold, and the lack of food and rest. The Nazi's thought it better to have them all die then be taken in by the Red Army.
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