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The movie “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” explained the events of the Holocaust which took place from 1938 to 1945. The term Holocaust is used to describe what the Nazi Germans did to the Jews, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, and Afro-Germans. The Holocaust claimed approximately eleven million lives. The majority of those were Jewish and the rest were from the other groups.

The film “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” starts off with Bruno and his family getting ready to pack and move to Berlin after his father announced that he got promoted to a commandment. Bruno, an 8-year old boy, is not happy with this decision because he does not want to leave his friends and relatives. The house in Berlin is huge, with thick white alls built around it to secure the house. The house is deserted and surrounded by trees. Bruno, feeling bored and …show more content…

The Holocaust was one of the most atrocious events that occurred during the Second World War. During the Great War, the Germans believed they lost the war because the Jews refused to lend the German Army anymore money because they saw it as a losing cause. After Adolf Hitler came to power, he began to impose a series of laws which restricted Jewish rights. These restrictions or the ‘Nuremberg Laws’ became more strict as the war continued. Near the end of the Second World War, rather than focusing on winning the war, Hitler insisted on killing all the Jews by setting up gas chambers. The film was pretty accurate however, I do wish they would have added more details on what goes on behind the camps. It would have portrayed the events in History more accurately. For example, they didn’t mention the random selections based on healthy and weak workers. Despite of that, they did portray the events of the gas chambers accurately. It gave me a sense of knowledge as to how it happened and where it

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