The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in Between the Lines

Oct 20, 2011 Elizabeth added it

Revisionist History:

There are many things that disturb me about "The Boy in The Striped Pajamas." After reading it for the second time I decided to look into other readers' thoughts and feelings about this book. I started reading reviews of this book by Amazon customers and I found myself shaking my head in disbelief long before I reached the well over 100 reviews I ended up reading. I thought to myself that I must have read a different book from the customers who wrote their reviews. The realit Revisionist History:

There are many things that disturb me about "The Boy in The Striped Pajamas." After reading it for the second time I decided to look into other readers' thoughts and feelings about this book. I started reading reviews of this book by Amazon customers and I found myself shaking my head in disbelief long before I reached the well over 100 reviews I ended up reading. I thought to myself that I must have read a different book from the customers who wrote their reviews. The reality that became obvious to me is that so many people do not even know the most basic facts about The Holocaust, and here more specifically about the concentration camps. This speaks to the reality of how little if anything people are taught in school about The Holocaust and that general populations around the world eat what is spoon fed to them whether they be lies or the truth. Then they continue to spread misinformation to others, or simply don't give a dam about the annihilation of millions of peoples only 65 years ago. "The Boy in The Striped Pajamas" is a historical novel. Although it is a novel it is incumbent upon the author to not cloud, twist, or change facts of history, and especially not facts about a time when the goal of human beings was the total annihilation of millions upon millions of other human beings. I suppose if people do not know the truth and the facts about The Holocaust that their high praise and lust for an emotional and unique story could be understood. What the author and publisher of this book did is an entirely different matter. When writing a historical novel research must be done by the author in order to preserve the truth and facts of history. It seems unlikely to me that this author did not do enough research about The Holocaust and the concentration camps to know that what he was writing was at best a disregard of truth and facts. It seems more likely to me that this author did do research about The Holocaust and CHOSE to ignore and disregard the facts in order to create a fantastical tale of impossibility that he knew would sell like hot cakes. One would think that a major publishing company would do its due diligence in order to not pervert verifiable facts of history, and that it would not knowingly publish a book that would make a mockery of history. One million copies of "The Boy in The Striped Pajamas" were sold as of just a few days ago. Clearly the sale of one million books took and takes precedence over not annihilating the truth and facts about the millions of human beings who were annihilated, as well as in essence, spitting in the faces of the very few who did survive.

ZERO Stars. This could not have happened! The premise is Ludicrous.
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Oct 01, 2010 · Barceló # 16 added it · review of another edition

The book is about a jewish concentration camp in Germany, the son of the head of the field makes friends with one of the Jews and one day enter the camp and put him in the showers of gas and dies

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