wn by the rest of the world, and made them believe that they were not only a good race of people but the best race of people. His words united his nation of Germans, All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out by blood poisoning. Hitler convinced the Germans that by mixing with other races, lesser races, they were mixing or deluding the perfect German blood and making them lesser of a nation. He influenced them and made them believe that the only way to become a great nation again was to purify themselves of this poison, the Jews. The effects of his own writing must have amazed even Hitler himself. To be able to take a nation that had been devastated and put down for so long and pull them together to accomplish so much, it shows how effective even one man can be.Frankl was on the opposite side of this equation. While Hitler was a great contributing cause of the holocaust, Frankl was a great effect of the holocaust. He actually lived in a concentration camp for sometime. Frankl addressed the three stages of prison life in his writings. First was the shock of showing in a concentration camp. One would be in total shock and almost not believe this was really happening to them. Then secondly one would become apathetic and life would fall into routine. The Germans mad e this step more difficult by never being consistent. While growing up a person learns what is expected of them and if they do wrong they are punished. The human mind can follow and understand this, but in the concentration camps people would be punished just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. This made a routine life very difficult because there was no definite guidelines to follow. Nevertheless many found a way to make it through the concentration camps which leads to the third stage, liberation. Many prisoners did not know what to do after they were liberated. They had been being told ...
