Analysis Of The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

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Recommended: The ways Jewish people were persecuted in Germany between 1933-1945

The treatment of Jews in this time period was abhorrent. The mere fact that Jews were placed into a death camp and exterminated was sufficient. In the film “The boy in the striped pajamas”, a moral issue arises in Germany in World War ll. This film reveals the racial discrimination and prejudice the Jewish people faced. Bruno who is an eight year old boy, is distraught after he learns that he has to leave his current home in Berlin to a new home in Auschwitz due to his father’s promotion to a Nazi commandant of a death camp. Arriving at their new home in Auschwitz, Bruno is lonely with no friends. From his bedroom window, he notices people in stripped pajamas behind a fence. He presumes they are farmers and asks his mother and father if he could meet some new friends on the farm. However, to his disappointment, he is told not to …show more content…

His father replies they are not people. This shows how he despises the Jews and that he did not see them as relevant people in society. They were not entitled to any human rights or even life. They were inferior to them. According to Rosenstand (2013), “Is a person deprived of their personhood when they violate other people’s liberty, property and life?” For instance, Bruno wanted to make a swing but he did not have the materials. He asked lieutenant Kotler who then shouted on the servant, Pavel, by saying you get the tire. This showed how meaningless the Jews were to him. They were just the number on their uniforms. They had their rights taken away from them and did not deserve to be called by their names. In this film the Jews have no liberty, no property, no life. It was all taken away from them. Their lives before no longer mattered. Due to this prejudice that occurred within the country, discrimination

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