The boy in the stripped pyjamas directed by Mark Herman is set during World War 2 and follows the life of an 8 year old boy named Bruno whose father is a commander for the SS and lives near a concentration camp. Bruno decides to adventure himself in his backyard forest where he comes upon a fenced concentration camp, where he has made friends with a young Jewish boy named Shmuel. The historical accuracy of this movie towards the Holocaust is barely accurate to the facts that children didn’t live nor survived in the camps, that the camps weren’t under high security, and that everyone seemed ignorant to the terrible things happening to the Jews. According to the United States Holocaust memorial website the children were extremely vulnerable
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The one part that is flawed is where the characters in the movie who live near one of the camps seem to be completely clueless to what is happening, this is even presented during the movie when the wife encounters the smell and one of the officers say “They smell ever worse when they burn don’t they” (48:26) this creates an altercation between the married couple, where the husband explain he was under a silenced oath. It is hard to believe that the people were so ignorant to what was happening in these camps but after doing some research I found an article published in 1942 in the Daily Telegraph which was titled “Germans Murder 700,00 Jews In Poland”. This article was only published on the fifth page of a six page newspaper, if the people weren’t really taking these titles at a bigger glance it could almost be portrayed as unreal, which makes it quite believable that in some cases people could’ve been ignorant to the torture in the concentration camps. With allies being controlled by the German authorities it is quite possible that the information being published could’ve been filtered to make things seem not so bad and just describing the camps as “working camps” for the war.
Although the movie of the boy in the stripped pyjamas did a great job at presenting Bruno and Shmuel’s friendship through such a hard time and was able to keep the concept of the camps real with the basic terms of torture, mal-nutrition and hard labour some of the fact are not quite what they were during the actual events. In majority the movie did not serve fairness to the actual
The one part that is flawed is where the characters in the movie who live near one of the camps seem to be completely clueless to what is happening, this is even presented during the movie when the wife encounters the smell and one of the officers say “They smell ever worse when they burn don’t they” (48:26) this creates an altercation between the married couple, where the husband explain he was under a silenced oath. It is hard to believe that the people were so ignorant to what was happening in these camps but after doing some research I found an article published in 1942 in the Daily Telegraph which was titled “Germans Murder 700,00 Jews In Poland”. This article was only published on the fifth page of a six page newspaper, if the people weren’t really taking these titles at a bigger glance it could almost be portrayed as unreal, which makes it quite believable that in some cases people could’ve been ignorant to the torture in the concentration camps. With allies being controlled by the German authorities it is quite possible that the information being published could’ve been filtered to make things seem not so bad and just describing the camps as “working camps” for the war.
Although the movie of the boy in the stripped pyjamas did a great job at presenting Bruno and Shmuel’s friendship through such a hard time and was able to keep the concept of the camps real with the basic terms of torture, mal-nutrition and hard labour some of the fact are not quite what they were during the actual events. In majority the movie did not serve fairness to the actual