Comparing Night 'And The Boy In The Striped Pajamas'

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The Nazi regime killed over six million Jews during the holocaust. Many of those were women, children and the elderly. There are many different points of view about the holocaust. The book “Night” and the movie “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” have different views on the holocaust. The book and the movie have many differences and similarities about how they show the holocaust and what happens in the storylines.
“Night” and “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” show different points of view of the holocaust. The movie shows the holocaust from the point of view of Bruno, the son of a nazi. The book shows the holocaust from the point of view of a Jewish boy, named Elie Wiesel, in a concentration camp. Both the book and the movie still show what happened

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