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The Book Thief In Nazi Germany

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The book thief is about a little girl who doesn 't know how to read. Liesel steals books to read so her foster parents don 't have to buy them. The Book Thief in Nazi Germany in 1939. The first book that Liesel stole was The Grave Digger 's Handbook. Liesel rescues a book form a Nazi book burning bonfire. Leisel 's family does not have a lot of money, so they want to spend the little money Leisel 's family has on food. Leisel steals books because her family does not have a lot of money. The Book Thief takes place in Germany during the Holocaust and world war II. The Holocaust was a time when the German leader Hitler discriminated against Jews and sent them to Nazi death camps. These camps that Jewish people were sent are called concentration
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