Survival in Auschwitz and Night and Fog aim to do more than document the events of the Holocaust. What makes the Holocaust stand out from other modern historical events is the way it creates questions about the basic ideas humans hold about their morality. While humans would like to think that in this modern age they are fundamentally “good,”'good,' the Holocaust demonstrated how large groups of people were still willing to persecute and commit genocide against and persecute others. Moreover, the Holocaust demonstrated that horrific acts are not committed by just the singular evil villain archetype. People in the SS, the military wing of the Nazi Party, who committed these acts, would otherwise appear as seemingly normal, everyday people. The fact that so many humans carried out these horrific acts raises many questions about whether humans have some genuine, innate moral principle. These questions are what Survival in Auschwitz and Night and Fog grapple with. Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz uses a despondent tone and imagery to reflect upon the conditions of the Holocaust which cause one to constantly fight for survival, and which result in a limited set of choices not understandable to the reader in their everyday life.