Let us start at the end. The ending of this book broke my
heart so much. That a small boy, Bruno, was led to the gas chambers without him
realising what was happening.
The naivety of him thinking that the chambers had
been warmed up so that they would not catch a cold is really heartbreaking. |
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Nazis. Holocaust. Germany. Hitler. I am forever fascinated
with all the documentation available on this. I am forever wondering how people
could be so cruel as to want to eliminate an entire people based on stupid
superiority issues. According to Bruno, there was not much difference between
him and Schmuel, they even looked the same when Bruno got his hair cut after
the lice infestation. So similar that
everyone in the camp at Auschwitz did not realise that Bruno was not one of
them. So what really was the problem with Hitler and all the other Nazis, like
Bruno’s father and that young soldier?
The book is really really heartbreaking. The innocence, the
arrogance, the indoctrination, looking at Bruno’s sister’s belief that they
were superior, the disruption of lives. Lord. I cried, I really did. Yet I
recommend it as a great read.
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