As mentioned in class, a Nazi-Soviet Pact, also known as the nonaggression pact, was signed between the Nazis and Soviets. In the act, it mentions how Poland would be divided in two separate sections between the two parties if a war were to break out. Russia would have eastern Poland and Baltic states while the Nazi’s would have western Poland. After the pact was created Germany invaded Poland which caused World War II to occur. Thus, Britain and France declared war on Germany a few days later. While the Nazi’s were invading Poland it brought up the question on what should be done to the three million Jews who resided there. So, the Einsatzgruppen was created, which was a paramilitary division whose task it was to execute Jews, Communists, …show more content…
The reason is the victims are systematically starved and not given the basic essentials to survive. Thus, when characters, for example, Henri from Levi’s passage would steal in most places outside of Auschwitz it would be considered wrong to steal and would be punished for doing so, however, in the camp people saw stealing as a necessity to survive. In contrast, in Borowski’s passage, about a kommando being able to live with the haunting guilt of their situation by trying to rationalize the situation. However, in some cases, in the passage mentions how several kommando out of guilt committed suicide. To lessen his guilt he would not mention to the new arrivals that they are being sent to the gas chambers. As well as, he asks his friend if they were bad people since he was furious with the arrivals and the ‘logical’ response was to rebel they will hate the new arrivals because they are seen as weaker. These kind of situations brings a new perspective showing how a person may behave in dire situations and raises the question if their actions were considering the situation morally wrong or not. This question would cause a debate because survival in death camps was tough so a simply yes or no answer is not fully address the living situation of the