the theme of night

The theme of night I think is that the cruelty of man is unknown. The level of human cruelty can be pushed to an unknown extent when the situation provokes it. Some accounts of this inhuman cruelty is when the guards at the camp were throwing innocent babies into the fire,and the unnesissary brutality of the gaurds in the camps to the prisioners.I feel the theme teaches us that we need to learn from the Holocaust of the cruelty of man so we can understand how inhuman and cruel people can become. With understanding this we can try to make sure such an atrocity never happens again.