Wiesel uses the emotional trauma and inhumane experiences of the survivors to explain how effective Treblinka was as an example in his speech. During World War II, all the poor and unfortunate souls who were condemned to concentration camps would lose their dignity, personal possessions and, above all, their loved ones. Those who believed America would save them were wrong. The SS St. Louis tragedy was the first American and Cuban ruling on Jewish immigrants hoping to escape Europe. America, England and France should have foreseen the impending storm that would be Hitler's blitzkrieg against all of Europe. The whole era full of hatred, murder, fascism and nationalism should never have begun. The world should have been more attuned to the major events of the 1930s, such as Hitler's election as Chancellor of the Reichstag. , Kristallnacht and the boycott of Jewish businesses. Due to war, camps and mass murder, Germany was ground zero for Jewish civilians. Hell on Earth became a reality in Treblinka. Jews were branded as slaves and lost their identity. Mothers were forced to leave their children and thousands of families were separated. Waking up with your mother one day and watching her march into the gas chambers the next, never seeing her again or even saying goodbye, would be traumatizing and cruel beyond belief. Explaining the sad, but undeniably true, facts about the Treblinka concentration camp, Wiesel spoke about how far the Nazis were willing to go to exterminate the Jewish people. During the year 1942, under the orders of “Operation Reinhard”, Treblinka opened the doors to the thousands of Jewish masses crammed inside, on...... middle of paper ......on Churchill could give was that the city was a “communications center through which trade moved to the Russian and Western fronts.” At the end of the war countless cities were left in ruins. Dresden is one of many examples that demonstrate how little the Allies cared about European culture. At the end of the war, as the “Red Army” broke into the Eastern Front rushing towards Berlin, Treblinka officers began taking bold steps to “cover their tracks”. By destroying buildings, killing remaining Jews, and burning all documents, Nazi soldiers hoped to hide all evidence of the atrocities committed within the camp. Works CitedUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d. Web. December 12, 2013. holocaust-teaching/common-questions#answer 8>.