Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has expressed gratitude that the American soldiers who liberated him from the concentration camp felt rage at what they saw. Wiesel's gratitude stems from the fact that the soldiers' anger and indignation validated the suffering and atrocities that he and other prisoners had endured.
During the Holocaust, millions of innocent people were systematically murdered by the Nazis. The concentration camps were places of unimaginable horror, where prisoners were subjected to forced labor, starvation, disease, and brutal physical and psychological abuse. The liberation of the camps by Allied forces was a critical moment in the Holocaust's history, and the soldiers who arrived at the camps were often shocked and appalled by what they found.
For Wiesel and other survivors, the soldiers' rage and disgust at what they saw helped to validate their experiences and served as a form of recognition for the atrocities they had endured. The soldiers' emotional response to the horrors they witnessed also demonstrated to the survivors that the world was not entirely indifferent to their plight and that there were people who cared about their suffering.
In short, Wiesel was grateful for the soldiers' rage because it helped to affirm the humanity of the survivors and demonstrated that their suffering had not gone unnoticed or unacknowledged.