During the Holocaust, more than 6 million Jews were persecuted by the Nazis in Germany and its surrounding nations. Following World War 1, Adolf Hitler came into power in Germany and formed one of the most powerful fascist totalitarian states at the time. Hitler blamed the economic depression on the Jews and others he believed to be inferior. He wanted to eradicate the people who were seen as a threat to the German people. The book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional representation of life during the Holocaust seen through the eyes of the son of a Nazi officer. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas gives a picture of life through the eyes of Bruno, a 9-year-old boy, who was the son of a Nazi officer. Bruno and his family lived in a house
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One of the first processes the Nazis used to dehumanize the Jews was passing the Nuremburg Laws. They were required to wear a yellow star on them at all times, which made them stand out among other people. Ghettos were established, which were sections of the city where all Jews from the surrounding areas were forced to reside. They were usually surrounded by barbed wire and a wall to keep the people inside. If the Jews wanted to leave the ghetto, they had to get permission from the guards. Often, more than one family had to live together in a single room because there was not enough land available for all the people that lived in the ghettos (Berenbaum, “Holocaust”). In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Shmuel explained that in the ghetto, he and his family had to live in a room with 11 people. “No, but when we were told we couldn’t live in our house, we had to move to a different part of Cracow, where the soldiers build a big wall and my mother and father and my brother and I all had to live in one room,” (126). Another way the Nazis dehumanized the Jews were by performing medical experiments on them without their
One of the first processes the Nazis used to dehumanize the Jews was passing the Nuremburg Laws. They were required to wear a yellow star on them at all times, which made them stand out among other people. Ghettos were established, which were sections of the city where all Jews from the surrounding areas were forced to reside. They were usually surrounded by barbed wire and a wall to keep the people inside. If the Jews wanted to leave the ghetto, they had to get permission from the guards. Often, more than one family had to live together in a single room because there was not enough land available for all the people that lived in the ghettos (Berenbaum, “Holocaust”). In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Shmuel explained that in the ghetto, he and his family had to live in a room with 11 people. “No, but when we were told we couldn’t live in our house, we had to move to a different part of Cracow, where the soldiers build a big wall and my mother and father and my brother and I all had to live in one room,” (126). Another way the Nazis dehumanized the Jews were by performing medical experiments on them without their