The Boy In The Striped Pajamas Propaganda

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The Holocaust was one of the worst genocides in history and one of the saddest as well. The Holocaust lasted from 1941-1945 just after the jews were sent to ghettos. The nazis would kill jews, hundreds at a time in terrible and cruel ways. The Holocaust was one of the most cruel and despicable act that people could ever do. During WWii the boy in the striped pajamas is seen through the eyes of an innocent eight year old son commandant at a German concentration camp. The movie also gives us an understanding of how propaganda was used. It also shows shows how Bruno’s curiosity and innocence gets him into some trouble in the movie. The movie the Boy in the Striped Pajamas takes place during WWll. Bruno an 8 year old boy and his family is living a …show more content…

They later relocate to the countryside. Bruno does not know that they are living near a concentration camp and his father is new commandant. Bruno is lonely in the big house with no one to play with. He looks out the window and sees a concentration camp with jews wearing striped uniforms. Since Bruno is 8 and knows nothing of the camps or the jews in them, he thought it was a farm and the people were farmers wearing pajamas. He told his mother and his mother covered up the windows and Bruno was back to being bored. Bruno goes outside and finds a door. He goes in and finds a shed with a window. He goes out the window, finally feeling free and not trapped he runs around and keeps running and finds a barbed fence. He then meets Shmuel who is the same age as Bruno. Shmuel tells Bruno that he is a Jew and that the Jewish people have been imprisoned in the camp by German soldiers, who also took their clothes and gave them the striped uniforms.

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