We used this book for a class I was co-teaching which attempted to measure learning outcomes of community college students. It's an excellent book for getting discussions going and seeing how students relate to events of which they have no experience. As a holocaust book, however, I think there are better books out there, but to get a real sense it's important to read many. I still find Hannah Arendt's [book:Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil ] to be one of the most significant. Two others that had a profound impact were Christopher Browning's [book:Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland] and Lifton's [book:The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide] I'm not sure why I gave Night only 3 stars. Perhaps because I thought it could have been better, more explicative. Who knows. Still, an important book.
