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How historically accurate is 'The boy in the Striped Pyjamas'?

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Not very. The entire plot of the book is based on the friendship between a Jewish boy in Auschwitz and the son of a Nazi commander. But most historians agree that a 9 year old boy wouldn’t have survived that long in the camp. read more

And their looming presence in our minds renders a movie like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ludicrous. It concerns an eight-year-old boy named Bruno (Asa Butterfield) whose career soldier father (David Thewlis) is placed in command of a concentration camp early in the war. read more

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