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Name: ____________________________________Global History on FilmThe Boy in the Striped PajamasThe Holocaust was the state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.?Holocaust?is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German community. During the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Gypsies, the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists,?Jehovah's Witnesses, and?homosexuals.?In 1933, the?Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators?killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews, whom the Nazis deemed a priority danger to Germany, were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included some 200,000 Gypsies. At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, mainly Germans, living in institutional settings, were murdered in the Euthanasia Program.?Between 1941 and 1944, Nazi German authorities deported millions of Jews from Germany, from occupied territories, and from the countries of many of its Axis allies to ghettos and to?killing centers, often called extermination camps, where they were murdered in specially developed?gassing facilities. In the final months of the war, SS guards moved camp inmates by train or on forced marches, often called “death marches." As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Germany, they began to encounter and?liberate concentration camp prisoners.Characters:Bruno (Asa Butterfield)- Bruno is an eight-year-old child living in Germany during WWII. He loves exploring and adventures. He has many friends until his Nazi father makes his family move to Auschwitz, Poland where he befriends Shumuel, who is also eight, but Shumuel is a Jew living on the other side of a barbed wire fenceGretel (Amber Beattie) - Bruno's twelve year old sister, known as the?'Hopeless Case' is always interested in everyone else's business.?She?does not really get along with Bruno.Father (David Thewlis) - The father of Bruno and Gretel, a Military Commandant. He and his family were re-located out of Berlin and into Poland right outside a concentration camp.?Shmuel (Jack Scanlon)- A?nine year old Jewish boy that is from Poland, he is very confused on where he is and what he is doing in the concentration camp on the other side of the fence.Base your answers to the following questions on Mark Herman’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas starring Asa Butterfield and David Thewlis.4382135173355What is the difference between being “innocent” and being “na?ve” when using those words to describe children?Why doesn’t Bruno try to protect his friend when Shmuel is attacked by Lieutenant Kotler?What does the film reveal about the role of propaganda in German society during the Nazi period? Based upon the film, to what degree was this propaganda successful? Provide examples from the film to support your analysis.What strategies did the Nazis use to try and reduce how much citizens knew about the true nature of the Final Solution?Aside from the Holocaust, name THREE other genocides that have occurred in history based on the premise of prejudice and hatred. ................
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