Journal Entry (Night)

They had orders to fire on any who could not keep up. Their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of this pleasure. If one of us stopped for a second, a sharp shot finished off another filthy son of a bitch.
(Page 81)
-Elie Wiesel

This quote in the book pointed me off in a different direction, the main focus in my mind was the words, their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of this pleasure. At this point I was just thinking about the people being scared out of their minds whether or not it was going to be them next and just for any reason one of the SS could shoot them right then and there, and a question I had was, why weren’t they going to fight back if they were going to be shot just because the could not keep up with the other people? You were going to die anyways right? One thing I do understand that they have been through so much and the though of just like that letting them kill you for something that ignorant then why bother right? This is not out of any disrespect for them but maybe there is someone who could answer this for me.