"Night" Chapter 1

After reading chapter one, I started thinking about the charade the German soldiers put on to the Jewish people before the ghettos and deportation began. When the German soldiers first invaded Hungary and the town that Wiesel lived, they were polite and considerate to their hosts, even bringing them chocolates. Due to the attitude the German soldiers had toward the Jews at that point, no one believed that they could harm them in any way. When the start of the arrests began, and the Jews were bustled into ghettos, and it showed the attitude change in the German soldiers. Although the Germans had to take part in herding and deporting the Jews, there could have been some soldiers, like the one who gave his hostess chocolates, who did not share the same attitude as his fellow comrades, but refused to go against the oath.