A review by daisyisawitch
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

3.75

The story was really captivating, however historically inaccurate. 

I'll say that it was clever to discover the atrocities happening at Auschwitz through the innocent eyes of a kid, not being able to imagine how horrible the life for the jewish people could really be.
However, as a German, I found it hard to believe that a 9 year old boy wasn't able to pronounce Führer and Auschwitz. Leutnant maybe. But the others are rather easy words, especially Führer he would've heard day in and day out. I also found it hard to believe that Bruno would never have heard of jewish people. The propaganda would've been omnipresent at school and in everyday life, especially with having a high ranking Nazi father.
After finishing the book I read an article that also mentioned how Auschwitz was depicted wrong and failed to mention the resistance of the imprisoned, it also cleared up that children were usually killed straight away because it was believed that they were not useful for forced labor.

I want to mention a cute moment that made me smile was

when Bruno and Shmuel met for the first time and Bruno decided that he probably was the only one named Bruno because he didn't know anyone else with the name.