1) During the span of the Holocaust, we all know there were around 6,000,000 Jews killed. We all are aware of that because Hitler was mainly focused on them. Something we might not know is that around 200,000 Gypsies were killed and well over 200,000 mentally or physically handicapped people were also "exterminated".
2) In some Places, Jews were forced to live in the miserable ghettos, were they were treated like rats. If that wasn't bad enough, they never knew when or if Nazis were going to come in and kill everyone there. Some ghettos lasted for months, even years, while others didn't even last a week.
3) Adolf Hitler's father, Alois Hitler, was born out of wedlock. This is uprising people today. They are trying to find out if Alois, or more importantly, his son Adolf is Jewish. The public is still not sure to this day.
Connecting books to yourself is sometimes very difficult. The Book Thief is no exception to that, but learning more about the holocaust and about how the people reacted is helping a lot. It helps to connect to a book when you can put yourself in the character's place, or know that this really happened, and this book wasn't all made up by the author. I know that the more I learn about the Holocaust, the more I will be able to connect to The Book Thief.
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