why did Elie name his book night

I think Elie Wiesel named is book night, because he wanted to tell the world and let them know that these were the most darkest and most painful times of his life. He picked night as a metaphor for how he felt. After what he went threw he probally felt alone, scared, anrgy. So he wanted to compare that to nightime, were its dark,scary and eeri.

Assignment 4 - Important people of the Holocaust

Nazi Germany also known as the Third Reich (German: Drittes Reich) was Germany when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party from 1933 to 1945. Nazi Germany is best known for its aggressive foreign policy, its launching of World War II, and the Holocaust which resulted in the death of millions of European Jews and other minorities deemed a threat to the Aryan race.