Bruno's The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

11 million people were killed in the Holocaust. They believed in a different religion, were disabled, or did not fit this “perfect race” of blonde hair and blue eyes. The Holocaust was a genocide led by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi soldiers. Adolf Hitler used the Jewish people as a scapegoat for Germany’s loss in WWI. Jews were believed to be “alien” and an inferior race. Millions of Jews were held in concentration camps. Six million were killed. Bruno’s father was a Nazi soldier during the Holocaust. When Bruno and his family moved to a new home near “Out-With” (Bruno pronounced Auschwitz as Out-With), one of the largest and deadliest concentration camps, Bruno had no idea of what went on at this strange place. He assumed that they were maybe just farmers, and there was nothing bad happening there. Bruno was blinded by naivety. He did not know that just past the barbed fence, people were being abused and killed. Even as he found out more throughout the story, he still did not understand the horror of what the soldiers were doing to the Jews. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it was bad that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust …show more content…
If Bruno knew wasn’t so naive, he probably never would have become friends with Shmuel. This means he would have never gone into the camp, been stuck in the march, and died in the gas chamber. Shmuel could have even lived. If Shmuel didn’t get stuck in the march at this time, he could have lived long enough to be saved from the camp. Let’s say Bruno did find Shmuel. He could have tried to take Shmuel out of the camp instead of going into it. Bruno might have not wanted to go into the terrible place. In the book, Bruno says “‘I don’t think I like it here . . . I think I ought to go home’” (Boyne 208). If Bruno had realized he didn’t like this place sooner, he would have never gone in. If Bruno had been more informed, it could have prevented both his and Shmuel’s