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The documentary Auschwitz – The Blueprint of Genocide and the feature film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas demonstrates the horrors of the World War II Nazi Concentration Camps. Both texts although different types, fiction and non-fiction, proceed to make us sympathise for the Jewish race that were getting mercilessly killed. The texts expose the cruelty of the killing that the Nazi conducted, and how a lot of the Germans were unaware of the killing that was happening in their country. The feature film also shows that the older generation brainwashed the younger generation into devoted Nazi youth. During the WWII the Germans conducted Holocaust of the Jewish race. The Germans invaded several different cities and countries and took the Jews to concentration labour camps and eventually killed them. The Germans killed approximately six million Jews all because of racial superiority. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is set in this era. The movie is also centered around the Holocaust where Ralph, Bruno’s father is a SS Commandant in the Russian army. He gets promoted and thus, the family has to relocate Auschwitz. Ralph is the commandant incharge of the Auschwitz concentration camp. His son Bruno, whose point of view we see the movie through, befriends a Jewish boy from the other side of the camp, which proves to have some starting and unexpected consequences. Meanwhile through the documentary we get to see the other side; the artifacts, blueprints and designs of the incinerators and interviews with various engineers to know the reality of how the Nazi were able to kill so many Jews. The older generation plays a very important part as to why these ruthless soldiers killed so many people. The old generation is like a symbol of the Naz... ... middle of paper ... ...er. And then the scene in the film, when we see a pile of naked dolls that represents the dead Jews – this is a brilliant analogy created by the director to show then the extent of Gretel’s change. The director also positions us to reject and hate Gretel’s set of value so subsequently we do, while we are positioned to accept Bruno’s. While comparing both texts: Auschwitz – The Blueprint of Genocide and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, we find that both texts succeeded to win the audience’s sympathy for the millions of Jews that were mercilessly killed. Both texts use various conventions to achieve this and also to position the audience. Although the feature film was more so successful than the documentary as film presented the topic in a more entertaining manner unlike the documentary where it was all the facts and details of the Holocaust and more or less boring.

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