In its entirety, The Book Thief is an important film that serves to account the overwhelming inhumanity of Nazi Germany through the alternative perspective of a child. Of all the scenes, I found that of the book burning to be among the most important to both the story and Liesel. What marks this particular scene, is that it accounts Liesel's realization of the hate that fuels not only the book burning but the Nazi ideology itself. Hearing the speech and being forced to burn a book, at this moment Liesel feels the overwhelming manipulation and censorship that has allowed the regime to rid of anything or anyone viewed as subversive to Nazism. From the particular mention of communists, Liesel realizes that the book burning goes beyond the censorship
