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The movie ends with a disturbing twist: the German boy digs a hole under the fence, puts on a Jewish “uniform,” and enters the camp to help the Jewish boy look for his father. Unfortunately, he arrives in the camp just as the final group of prisoners is being sent to the gas chamber.

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Bruno Timeline in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

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Bruno Timeline in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

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Bruno realizes that Auschwitz is a sketchy place—he wants to leave, but he's promised Shmuel he'll help find his dad, so he keeps his word. They don't find Shmuel's dad, though. The boys are surrounded by soldiers and marched with a group of Jews to a gas chamber.

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the boy in the striped pajamas trailer.

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My favorite part in the boy in the striped pajamas is .. My favorite part is when Bruno & Shmuel are on the same side of the fence. Mt favorite part of the story was when Bruno made fun of Adolf Hitlers mustach because it was funny. ... It was interesting and I felt like I was actually Bruno or Shmuel.

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Later this week, visitors to London's Wiener Library will be able to access the complete archive of the UN War Crimes Commission, an invaluable cache of tens of thousands of historic documents that have been largely inaccessible to researchers for more than 70 years. Among the revelations contained in the archive are the indictment of Adolf Hitler for Nazi killings in Czechoslovakia in 1944, and the fact that Allied governments learned the Nazis were slaughtering Jews more than two years before Soviet troops reached the first death camp in Poland.

For decades, the attempts made by the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) to prosecute the horrific crimes committed by Nazi Germany during World War II have been shrouded in secrecy. This week, tens of thousands of files that make up the commission's archive will be opened to the public for the first time at the Wiener (pronounced "VEE-ner") Library in London, a leading research destination for scholars of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and genocide. The catalog will be available to search online. As reported in the Guardian, the opening of the archive promises to "rewrite crucial chapters of history" about the Holocaust and how the Allied Powers confronted it.

"The first takeaway is that it completely changes how we thought the Allies responded to the Holocaust," Dan Plesch, a professor at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS University of London told HISTORY. "We now know that part of the Allied governments in London...in fact brought criminal indictments against Hitler and his henchmen while the war was still going on."

Plesch has been working with the UNWCC archive for a decade, and his new book, " Human Rights After Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes," was published this week in concert with the archive's opening in London. According to his research, the commission's records showed that that Allied governments were aware as early as December 1942 that the Nazi regime had murdered at least 2 million Jews. In fact, the U.S. and U.K. governments made a public declaration about the slaughter at that time, nearly two-and-a-half years before the discovery of the first concentration camps.

Ben Barkow, director of the Wiener Library, also spoke to HISTORY about one of the other "attention-grabbing" revelations of the archive: the commission's efforts to indict Adolf Hitler directly for his role in the massacres Nazi units carried out in Czechoslovakia.

"It was more a political gesture than a serious attempt to bring him to trial," Barkow noted. "I believe that under the auspices of the war crimes commission you couldn't indict a head of state. But it was nevertheless an important gesture"-and one that was not widely known about until now. The commission secretly handed down that indictment at a meeting in late 1944, after assembling hundreds of pages of evidence to support it.

As Barkow explained, the archive also reveals early efforts Allied governments made to treat rape and sexual violence as war crimes. "Most people think it started after the Rwandan genocide and the war in the former Yugoslavia," he noted. "But in fact the Allies were working on that even before World War II was over."

Beyond the commission's work, why didn't the Allied governments say or do more to stop the Nazis' horrific crimes during the war? According to Plesch, anti-Semitic forces within the U.S. State Department at the time pushed back against the efforts of Herbert Pell, the U.S. envoy to the UNWCC. Later, the State Department would agree to the more high-profile trials of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg in 1945-46, which overshadowed the earlier commission's wartime prosecutions.

In the late 1940s, the UNWCC was shut down and use of its records effectively suppressed, as West Germany became a key U.S. ally at the start of the Cold War. For some 70 years, the documents remained tightly guarded, closed to researchers unless they got the permission of both their own government and the UN secretary general.

During the Cold War, the crusading anti-communist Senator Joseph McCarthy lobbied to end the war crimes trials altogether, and many convicted Nazis were granted early release. "The political forces of Sen. McCarthy bring the whole thing to a screeching halt and smear the whole process," Plesch said.

But as the newly opened UNWCC archive makes clear, such equivocation about the horrors of the Holocaust was as wrongheaded-and dangerous-then as it would be today. Current world leaders, Plesch argued, could learn from the commission's example (and its dogged efforts to document and prosecute Nazi crimes during World War II) when faced with evidence of the war crimes being committed in the Middle East today.

As for historians, journalists and the general public, the post-war cover-up of the commission's efforts offers a lesson of history we shouldn't forget. "Once upon a time," Plesch said, "There were people not only suppressing war crime trials but convincing the world they never even existed."

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Opening of Secret UN Archive Yields New Holocaust Revelations

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Later this week, visitors to London's Wiener Library will be able to access the complete archive of the UN War Crimes Commission, an invaluable cache of tens of thousands of historic documents that have been largely inaccessible to researchers for more than 70 years.

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film) | Wikiwand

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2008 drama film set in World War II, based on the novel of the same name by John Boyne.[4] Directed by Mark Herman, produced by BBC Films and Heyday Films, and distributed by Miramax and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, the film stars Vera Farmiga, David Thewlis, Asa Butterfield, and Jack Scanlon.

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During World War II, 8-year-old Bruno (Asa Butterfield) and his family leave Berlin to take up residence near the concentration camp where his father (David Thewlis) has just become commandant. Unhappy and lonely, he wanders out behind his house one day and finds Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish boy of his age. Though the barbed-wire fence of the camp separates them, the boys begin a forbidden friendship, oblivious to the real nature of their surroundings.

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in this amazing book has a total of five characters including Bruno, Pavel, Ralf, Shmuel, and Elsa

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In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Bruno is the son of a Nazi commandant; he remains innocent of the horrors of the Holocaust and befriends a prisoner at the death camp. Shmuel is a young Polish Jew who does not understand why he is in the concentration camp.

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Cindy Huntley turns old books into intricate sculptures - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne.        Gloucestershire Resource Centre http://www.grcltd.org/scrapstore/