“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and color the minutest cells of the brain…” (Bundrant). Kipling understood the power of words. They influence and change the mind and the body. When Kipling was giving this speech, Hitler was on his way to power and Hitler similarly understood the power of words. He used compelling language to persuade an entire culture to hate another. The war caused them to turn away from the holocaust. The Jews themselves even recognized the signs except they didn’t want to believe that this was happening. Elie states in his book "Night" that “It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory” (Wiesel, 11). The Holocaust should have been detected because of the many warning signs. Elie Wiesel’s memoir "Night" and his “Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech” convey multiple implications of silence that he might want his readers to consider knowing.