The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Theme Package

The Fury

Bruno mistakes the word “Führer “ for “Fury”

The Führer was the title of Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Germany from 1933-45

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbduo4fHANA&feature=related Adolf Hitler

-The Führer -

Eva Braun – Hitler’s Mistress

Chapter 11 mentions Bruno’s meeting with the Fury’s friend, the pretty blonde lady

Eva Braun met Hitler when she was only 17

She and Hitler were married 40 hours before their deaths by suicide in 1945 – she was 33

Out-With

Bruno mistakes the name Auschwitz for Out-With

Auschwitz was a notorious concentration camp in Poland which existed from 1940-45

The Real Commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Höss was the first

commandant of Auschwitz from 1940 – 43

In June 1941 Höss was informed that because of its isolation, Auschwitz had been chosen by Hitler as the main site for the extermination of European Jews

Höss was executed in 1947

Woman Guard Juana Bormann was

one of the few women guards at Auschwitz

She was known for her cruelty and called “Wiesel” and “the woman with dogs”

She was executed after the war for war crimes