Night: Thoughts on Chapter One

      The thing that struck me the most was the fact that no one believed Moshe the Beadle when he told the people around Sighet about what he had seen. People seemed to want to ignore his warnings and pretend like they were the thoughts of a madman. This made me wonder whether people were ignoring him to remain optimistic of what was happening or if they genuinely knew nothing of what was happening. Later, it mentioned that they were listening to The London radio and felt that it gave them heartening news that Germany might lose as well as the good news from the Russian front solidifying it. Was this heartening because they knew of what was going down to other Jews in Europe or because of the general knowledge that the Nazis believed the Jews to be inferior? If they knew that Jews were being killed, why would they ignore Moshe's warnings?