Review Of Simon Wiesenthal's Novel 'The Sunflower'

Simon Wiesenthal described his experiences at the hands of Nazi soldiers at a concentration camp in his novel, “The Sunflower.” This novel was based on true events, but the question that Wiesenthal raised at the end of his novel is where this story truly makes you step into his shoes and think about what you would have done during this horrific period in human history.
During World War II Simon Wiesenthal was a Jewish teenager that was imprisoned in Lemberg concentration camp. This camp contained mostly Jewish people and was run by the German SS soldiers. Simon is in the SS camp with his friends Arthur and Josek. One day Wiesenthal was assigned to work in front of his old high school, which became a hospital for the injured SS soldiers. A nurse took him into the hospital and he was escorted into a room where a dying SS soldier was laying in bed. This soldier was close to death and he had asked the nurse to get a Jew so he could confess his

Nonetheless, I think that I can have compassion for the Jews and especially Simon Wiesenthal. I would not be able to forgive the Nazi soldier. The things that he and his group of Nazi soldiers did to my people would have made me very angry. All of the inhuman actions he did to the many harmless Jewish people would have left me infuriated. I would not have been able to just walk away like Simon Wiesenthal did. I would say, “No! You need to suffer and feel the pain just like you made my fellow Jews suffer!” Showing no pity on the dying Nazi soldier just like he and his fellow comrades showed none for the Jews would have been an acceptable way to end the