When this movie first came out, my wife and I went to see this movie and when the "credits" came out, NOBODY left the theater, ..........everyone stayed throught half of the credits befor they left. We walked out in total silence. They weren't burned, they were "gased" and killed before they were burnt.
They did not burn them (yet) in that hut that supposed to be a "shower". They got gassed. And after being gassed, the dead bodies would be burned. But its of course sickening anyways, terrible :(
I'm surprised they had the tinies amount of humanity to not burn them immediatly and instead go through the trouble of gassing them before burning them...
@@myheartwillstopinjoy8142 if they burn them right away there would be panic among the prisoners but lying and telling them it's a shower is easier they didn't go through the trouble because they had heart or anything
@@alpix8217 nope it was to not cause mass panic so gassing them instead of giving them a shower (they even gave them soap) is to not cause panic and make everything so smooth
The reason they show the death of Bruno and the pain of his family is because they are in the same position as all the Jews who died or suffered. The audience feels strongly that the boy SHOULD be saved, and we feel for the mother, but that is also true of the innocent Jews. To save Bruno would be an insult to the innocent Jews.
I was literally saying to myself watching this "I don't want Bruno to die, but I think he needs to die so his father gets a damn taste of his own damn medecine"... Like, just thousands of jews dying because of you everyday and yet, your son's life should be worth more than all theirs? If he found Bruno before he died, just imagine how infuriating it would have been. Imagine the man pulling his kid out of there and letting the others die. Imagine Bruno seeing his friend die... Such a bitter ending but, it's the best ending for this movie.
although its very important to learn about holocaust I would also like to point out that Stalin did exactly the same....and China has done it and North korea still does it...I just say it cause I think its sooo important for people to know this...what was done to jewish people was unforgivable but what Stalin did to eastern europeans is exactly the same...people just dont talk about it or make movies about it because Stalin won the war...and US didnt care about eastern europe, my family members died in camps just like this... and its just pains me that people dont learn about it in the schools like they do with holocaust
@@HK-gm8pe Yes. I've seen estimates as high as 100 million people murdered by Stalin during his "career." Holocaust killings were 6 million, and Stalin reportedly killed 7 million in a single year. Pol Pot in Cambodia, Idi Amin Dada in Uganda. I'm sure I'm missing some here. That's a "good observe," as they say in Scotland.
You know, when I watched this and it got towards the end and they were racing to save their son I had a sinking realization that they COULDN'T save him. Not the characters in the film, but the film itself couldn't. Because how could you possibly root to save this ONE child when all the other children were killed. They couldn't do it that way. And I knew he HAD to die. Very depressing.
I read the book, Bruno had a shaved head at the time when he went into the camp, because of lice. And he was missed for a time, before they found his clothes at the fence. So his body burned days or weeks ago, before the family realised what happened to his son. But clear for the film they need more excitement.
This movie is truly heartbreaking... You can see how much this "new job" affects his wife and Bruno.. The daughter is brainwashed by the papers she reads.. Bruno just wanted to make a friend and he didn't understand what was happening..
Poetic justice is what one calls the ending. The two wee babies holding hands as they were being gassed. Heart. Breaking. This is a fictionalised story, but it’s based on real life events.
I studied History and teach it as well. The movie is historically very inaccurate though and a highly problematic movie. At the end the audience moans the death of the german boy not the jews, very bad ending and not historically accurate at all. Movies like "Zone of Interest" are way better.
Very intense movie, from my memory from watching it in school I thought they gassed them in the chamber not burned them. I haven’t watched this in so long, but it’s so sad. Definitely crazy that this happened, and very informative movie
@@myheartwillstopinjoy8142 I believe they burned them either because they were sick and too weak to work or it was punishment for something they did. Honestly a number of reasons.
I watched it in 6th grade and everyone was crying screaming and some left traumatized it was insane the teacher said sorry to everyone and she was crying too
This film is highly intense and disturbing at times, especially the ending. But I’m glad you guys didn’t watch Schindler’s List, that’s an absolutely horrific film to watch. But it is a masterpiece nonetheless
My mom was extremely religious back in 2009. Out of nowhere, she went on a Holocaust movie marathon and she told me to watch them on my own when I get the chance. The Pianist was the first. This film (Boy in the Striped Pajamas) was my second and really hit hard. It's one thing to see death camps all around you as an adult, but imagine discovering these camps through your eyes as a child. After watching all the Holocaust films and tv series ever made, I started visiting the Holocaust museum in D.C. every year on Remembrance Day. History fact: the pellets they used for gassing is called Zyklon B. In the movie we don't actually see behind the door as they die. However, if you watch The Devil's Arithmetic, you'll see how the prisoners react to the gassing.
What's worst to realize is that before burning them (they didn't burn alive), they killed all those people with gas, a slow and totally painful death. Humanity can be so cruel to the point to not even being capable to do such a thing without making them suffer. Sadly, regardless of our nation, religion and line of thought, we can benot only good, but also horrible creatures...amazing reaction and argument about the movie!
My school just watched it in the classroom room and I think the whole class thinks I'm a serial killer or something because I laughed so hard at the end I was asked to leave
@@bingusbongus3109 Haha yeah, in fairness there are a lot of people who laugh uncontrollably when it's innapropriate or when something's not funny. I've done that before myself. Don't worry, you're not a serial killer... Yet... I hope...
What’s crazy to me is that when I watched this when I was a little kid I didn’t know about ww2 yet or the holocaust but this shit hit me so hard I couldn’t stop crying and when I rewatched it when I understood I cried so much more
We watched this movie in history class when I was 15. WW2 was (and is) my favorite thing in history. But we were shown this movie and I was so distraught, I literally wanted to flip myself out of the third story window. MAN this movie made my stomach drop. I felt empty for the rest of the day.
I remember watching this in middle school, first year (so 6th) for English literature class, as we usually watched the movie adaptations of books we read (such as the giver and lord of the flies) as part of the curriculum. I'd never seen my classmates be so quiet during the movie, there were no questions, there wasnt even the typical whispering stupid shit to each other. it was in italy, a lot of my classmates were jewish or had jewish relatives including myself, but thinking back on it and comparing it to teens reactions on tiktok or even adults my age, we were probably the most stoic Id ever seen. as far as I remember, nobody cried, nobody really even commented on the end, but also no one took breaks or interrupted the movie.
Basically...mom is DONE with dad totally, Dad would be executed or sent to the front lines (same thing ) if he tried to leave his post. Remember his brother was sent to the front lines for not telling on him. The pain is the very same no matter what decade or culture. And this event probably really happened! Poor mom. ...
They were NOT executed when they refused to do this kind of "work". They did ist because they thought it was an important work. It was well paid, and the families lived an easy life, except when they felt empathy for the prisoners. No soldier was forced to work in a concentration camp.
You don't realize that this story is 100% fiction?! This is not a story based on real events. Yes, there were concentration camps, yes, 6 million Jews died + various other victim groups (homosexuals, Sinti, Roma, priests...), yes, there were gas chambers, but the part about the son of a concentration camp commandant who was accidentally gassed because he had made friends with a child from the camp is such historical nonsense!!! The camp fences were strictly guarded, a child like Shmuel would never have been able to sit unnoticed on the fence and play with a child like Bruno. Shmuel would have been shot. Even if Bruno had tried to crawl under the fence, he would have died from the electricity on the fence. An 8-year-old boy in Auschwitz would either have been gassed immediately upon arrival or would have been sent to Mengele for experiments. Bruno would have been raised and indoctrinated to the maximum. The wife of a commander would never have protested, she would have gone along with it wholeheartedly, even before the move, Bruno would have learned all this at school, learned to hate Jews, learned that Jews were allowed to die, learned that Jews were not human beings. There was not a single Bruno in history, but millions of Shmuels who died in this way. Not one German mother had to experience the death of her 8-year-old son in this way. In other ways during the war, by bombs of course, but not like this. It would never have been possible for the mother not to have known what was going on in the concentration camp. The absolute majority of Germans knew that these "rumors" were the truth. After all, there was enough forced labor spread across the country, German companies that made concentration camp prisoners work to death, or (like today's pharmaceutical company Bayer) used them for drug testing. There were concentration camps within Germany, just think of Dachau or Bergen-Belsen. All Germans saw the freight trains heading east. All Germans experienced the "Kristallnacht" pogroms and all Germans experienced the dismissal of Jewish work colleagues, the expropriation of Jewish neighbors, the deportations. "We all knew it. Anyone who says otherwise is just denying it." - Quote, my grandma, German, born in 1928
The SS is the organization ran by Hitler to enforce his antisemitic policies @@Isabella-tu9fb. They’re the group who is directly responsible for the millions of deaths in the Holocaust. They’re target anyone who opposes Hitler and his beliefs.
Personally, my favorite is Seven Beauties dir. by Lina Wertmuller. One of the reasons the Piano was a standout is because the director, Roman Polanski, was a child in the Warsaw Ghetto. His parents heard they were coming for the children and the pushed him out through a break in the wall. He became one of the many orphans wandering Europe trying to stay alive until the war ended.
I've only seen this movie once. I never found the courage to go through that emotion again. It got me the most when everything was so loud when they were led to the chamber, and then next second it was dead silent.
i’m so glad you made that bruno joke 😂😂 you said what we were all thinking. also if it makes you feel better, i never watched this movie prior to this video. the ending made my heart break into tiny little pieces 😭😭
This is the first ever movie where I read the book first before watching. I saw the book on sale in a small kiosk, unaware that it's gonna be done as a movie. I was just into these period of history. The book broke my heart, imagine how much worse I felt when I saw this movie.
Just for the record, they were not set on fire, they were gassed to death in a ags chamber and burnt their bodies. And what happened to bruno would have been impossible for many reasons, but it would have happened to shmuel
The main kid Bruno actors name is Asa Butterfield. I know him from this, Hugo and miss perigrans home for peculiarities children. He’s also in s*x education. Oh and nanny McPhee
We read the book in primary school (higher elementary school) in the UK. The two young actors were phenomenal in this film. I remember visiting a ww2 air raid shelter, aswell as visiting an old Victorian (late 1800s) type school before I was 12. I live in Scotland and the fact that so many Americans don’t know the holocaust or the history of what actually took place is astounding to me. We have a lot of Polish people in the UK, especially in Aberdeen, as well as other Eastern European people. So many polish people I know have visited auschwitz concentration camp when they were at school. I could never though. You can see the ‘striped pajamas’ if you visit.
At my old school, we read the book version because the district or whatever said it was too inappropriate for school to actually watch the movie and so we always read the book as a class and we would have to ask our parents for permission to watch the movie but we couldn't watch it at school
The boys went into a gas chamber, not an incinerator. Also, the movie that the men were watching, and that Bruno saw, was not a parody, but a propaganda film. It's so sad what's NOT taught in school any longer.
I read the book first and my teacher said it was very sad but I didn’t know why it was so sad until the ending when my teacher told us what happened, there was a moment of silent and I spent the next 38 hours heartbroken and worse, the song payphone was stuck in my head I had a similar experience to this when my year 3 teacher put on Tarzan and that beginning with the baby gorilla getting eaten got me down, and when the teacher said it was sad I thought it was gonna be some random scene
Guys this is a cakewalk compared to Schindler's List btw the german soldier were soldier. The ones with ᛋᛋ on the collar, well, they weren't meant to be taken as prisoners
Correct While this films has a lot of intense and disturbing moments, especially the ending it’s nowhere near as horrifically violent and graphic as Schindler’s List
The pain I felt seeing the final minutes of this movie KNOWING what is about to come. I kept saying “NOOO NOOO NOOO.” And the fear I felt when he went inside the camps
This movie freaked me out because I expected Bruno to rescue, or to try to rescue, Schmaul from the concentration camp (or at least confront his father regarding him). I was not expecting the ending at all.
I show this every year to my 8th graders. It is right before we read a graphic novel about a survivor. I need it to give weight to what could happen. To make them care. Because if we just read a graphic novel, they won't "get it." After that ending? You bet their ass they do after this.
Also, the book does give an ending beyond the chamber. The father becomes disillusioned and pretty much gives up to the Soviets when they take over the camp, as in he didn't want to fight anymore after losing his son.
btw they didn't burn them they put gas in the room the rooms were closed and the process was around 10 minutes it was painful and slow usually kids would stay alive the longest cause their immunitary system is stronger than the other older people there.
The first time I watched this I was in total shock at the end. This is the most depressing story put on film and I will take that to my grave. True Friendship will always be there even in the darkest times of History.
I didn't watch this movie in school either. Then again, I was out of school long before this movie came out. My history lessons consisted of "Okay class, open your textbooks to page...". We didn't watch movies. However, Schindlers list I understand because that was based on witness testimony, but this movie's story and characters are fictional. As such, it doesn't make sense that they'd show this movie in a history class. That would be like watching The Last Samurai for a class on Japanese history. Good movie and loosely based on some actual events, but overall a work of fiction.
I saw this advertising across my feed for. ...a few years...but was never inclined to watch it. ...until a few months ago. So much was going on within me afterwards! Every emotion possible hit me hard. I could only weep. We've read and watched the movies and documentaries but they don't really prepare your mind and heart for a fraction of what the reality of these events actually were...that's what I felt after finally watching this movie. This is the only time that I'm watching this since. (Cannot watch it again)
Huh? I’m the one who said it I admitted to that lol I’m confused but I already know how this is gonna go so imma say HAVE A BLESSED DAY and head out lol Thanks for watching though
@@mrflickswatches To answer your question they were were not burning them in that chamber they were poisoning them with cyinide, hence the term gas chamber's
It's a sad movie but it's one of my favorites because it shows how much those 2 friends didn't see themselves as different they just saw them as friends and people they didn't understand but the fact the world was like that is messed up and they say history repeats itself I hope noone ever gets treated the way the Jews did
Okay this is a FABLE. A little boy that age would be gassed on arrival. I use this book as a part of my curriculum about the Holocaust. The camp is Aushwitz-Birkenau one of the 5 death camps. Terblinka Chelmno Dachau Sorbibor Aushwitz-Birkenau
I though somehow towards the end before the gas chamber I though the spillers would recognize Bruno and take him back home so he lives but because he was wearing the same clothes as everyone else there was no way of telling that he wasn’t a Jew
Most german soldiers had no idea what went on in the labor camps. After the war we showed them video of the bodies, camps. They got sickened, and that's why there's basically no German war vets that spoke about their war time. Everyone thinks they all did this stuff
They just didn't want to believe it. They convinced themselves that it was just rumors, but EVERYONE knew it. I am German, my grandparents grew up in this system, and I even got to know two of my great-grandparents, who were already adults at the time, as a small child. Like many of my compatriots, I once read private family diaries. Of course they knew it. The shock of the soldiers and residents after the Allies showed them the reality was partly deliberately faked (one of my grandfather's uncles wrote this in his diary; he did it in the hope of being released from captivity earlier), or was due to the difference between knowing something in theory and seeing and experiencing it in practice. All Germans saw the crimes against the Jews with their own eyes. The mass dismissals, long before the war began. The closure of Jewish schools. The marking with the yellow stars. The expropriations - my great-grandfather was entered in the land register for a house that previously belonged to his Jewish neighbor, of course my great-grandfather knew that a Jew had been expropriated there just like that and that the entire Jewish family had been deported. All Germans saw the freight trains heading east. In many cities the victims were publicly driven through the streets to the freight station. Forced laborers worked in so many German companies, German employees were given instructions on how to deal with them, pharmaceutical companies were given concentration camp prisoners for research purposes, all of whom died. Ask Bayer, a German company, what they did between 1933 and 1945. Anyone who had a job in Germany at that time, in a reasonably large company, experienced the violence against forced laborers. They were even employed in small villages and in agriculture and worked themselves to death. Of course, German chemical companies noticed the increased demand and orders for poison gas, and no, this could not be kept secret from the regular workforce either. All Germans saw the November Kristallnacht pogroms of 1938 with their own eyes, the burning houses, synagogues and people. Public executions and deportations of Jews on a large scale. Blood stains that could still be seen on the ground days later, my grandmother (10 at the time) described in her diary. Quote translated into English: "When mom slaughters a pig, there is significantly less blood. I can't imagine that a person who has lost so much blood is still alive. The street in front of my house feels like a grave. No matter where those who are still alive are taken, I can't believe that they will live there for much longer. But dad says it serves them right. It is for the good of all if the Jews die." Now please also consider that there were people who worked in concentration camps in the middle of the country (Dachau, Bergen-Belsen etc.). People lived nearby and you can smell the burned corpses for miles, depending on the direction of the wind. It is such an unmistakable smell. Even the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls had their own visits to concentration camps. The children learned to hate from an early age.
It shoul go off the rails at the atfer the ending at have the dad go mental and find the guy with the mustahce and kill him like what arthur was goikg to do to micha but i am accept this is fully serious
Elsa Doesn't Deserve It But Gretel Did Because She Did Not Like Bruno However I Think His Death Has Changed Her Life Forever And Now She Regrets Her Actions And Misses Him I Would Love To See Bruno And Shmuel Get Reincarnated As Brothers And Have Them Unable To Touch Showers Due To What Happened In This Movie And As They Get Older We See Them Meet His Mother And Gretel As She Apologizes To Him And I Would Also Like To See The Prisoner Number That Shmuel Once Had In 1942 Like A Birthmark
@@fangurkseraph The events were based on a true story although this movie is fictional so i supposed it's ok if one wants to come up with an alternate ending
If it didn't upset you, I'd be worried!!!! This is why history is so very important .... so we learn from it and don't repeat it! I think these were gassed. Remember the hole in the roof when he looked up and the man had on a gas mask while he was dropping it into the room!
I studied History and teach it as well. The movie is historically very inaccurate and a highly problematic movie. At the end the audience moans the death of the german boy not the jews, very bad ending and the whole plot is so poorly constructed while lacking any kind of logic or historically accurate informations. Movies like "Zone of Interest" are way better.
2:45 "Heil Hitler!", we can translate it like "Salute Hitler / Long live Hitler" was the greeting used by the german soldiers and by the people in official contest, behind1933 and 1945 in Nazi Germany
Right in the beginning "I don´t think it´s Hitler himself." "No, he does not have the mustache." I like these two. And I´m not the type that puts down young people just for being young. But those lines really hurt. Is WW2 and what happened there really THAT forgotten already?!? I´m close to 40, but we learned about this at age 12. Granted, I´m not from the US, so no idea how it´s over there. edit: Sorry to bother you after 2 months.
@@IstvanThree Absolutely agree about the hurt part. Especially considering the girl apparenrly watched this movie in school back then, apparently. I'd think having Hitler be the father of the protagonist would be something one would remember. I mostly got the feeling they reacted to the movie for reaction's sake, and that made it a bit shallow feeling for me. Oh well.
@@fangurkseraph Sadly, with all these thousands of react channels it´s difficult to say who means it and who doesn´t. But to imagine someone watching this or Schindlers List or *insert movie* and does a cryface for clicks is pretty... mh, almost sickening. Again - nothing against these two, not accusing them. But even Hitler being childless is pretty much common knowledge, at least here. Whatever... today´s problems seem to be of another kind, who needs to remember WW2 and it´s implications 🤷♂
When this movie first came out, my wife and I went to see this movie and when the "credits" came out, NOBODY left the theater, ..........everyone stayed throught half of the credits befor they left. We walked out in total silence.
They weren't burned, they were "gased" and killed before they were burnt.
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This movie never came out in theaters. I don't remember it. It was directed to home video I think.
@@imsljr420ummm what do you mean? this movie WAS released in theaters. Lol
When I first saw this, I didn’t expect it to have a tragic ending like this.
All waiting for the happy ending or something more, but it never came, I was in total silence too
They did not burn them (yet) in that hut that supposed to be a "shower". They got gassed. And after being gassed, the dead bodies would be burned. But its of course sickening anyways, terrible :(
I'm surprised they had the tinies amount of humanity to not burn them immediatly and instead go through the trouble of gassing them before burning them...
@@myheartwillstopinjoy8142 thats because soldiers got affected psychologicly other way
25:21 well, technically, they had a team of Jews that had to move the bodies after the crematorium
@@myheartwillstopinjoy8142 if they burn them right away there would be panic among the prisoners but lying and telling them it's a shower is easier they didn't go through the trouble because they had heart or anything
@@alpix8217 nope it was to not cause mass panic so gassing them instead of giving them a shower (they even gave them soap) is to not cause panic and make everything so smooth
The reason they show the death of Bruno and the pain of his family is because they are in the same position as all the Jews who died or suffered. The audience feels strongly that the boy SHOULD be saved, and we feel for the mother, but that is also true of the innocent Jews. To save Bruno would be an insult to the innocent Jews.
I was literally saying to myself watching this "I don't want Bruno to die, but I think he needs to die so his father gets a damn taste of his own damn medecine"... Like, just thousands of jews dying because of you everyday and yet, your son's life should be worth more than all theirs? If he found Bruno before he died, just imagine how infuriating it would have been. Imagine the man pulling his kid out of there and letting the others die. Imagine Bruno seeing his friend die... Such a bitter ending but, it's the best ending for this movie.
@@myheartwillstopinjoy8142 Heart-wrenching, but so true.
although its very important to learn about holocaust I would also like to point out that Stalin did exactly the same....and China has done it and North korea still does it...I just say it cause I think its sooo important for people to know this...what was done to jewish people was unforgivable but what Stalin did to eastern europeans is exactly the same...people just dont talk about it or make movies about it because Stalin won the war...and US didnt care about eastern europe, my family members died in camps just like this... and its just pains me that people dont learn about it in the schools like they do with holocaust
@@HK-gm8pe Yes. I've seen estimates as high as 100 million people murdered by Stalin during his "career." Holocaust killings were 6 million, and Stalin reportedly killed 7 million in a single year. Pol Pot in Cambodia, Idi Amin Dada in Uganda. I'm sure I'm missing some here. That's a "good observe," as they say in Scotland.
And lets not forget USA bombing Hiroshima and all of middle east. So many innicent lives. The war never ended really. @@HK-gm8pe
You know, when I watched this and it got towards the end and they were racing to save their son I had a sinking realization that they COULDN'T save him. Not the characters in the film, but the film itself couldn't. Because how could you possibly root to save this ONE child when all the other children were killed. They couldn't do it that way. And I knew he HAD to die. Very depressing.
I watched this movie in our High School history class. That ending still gets me.
Same here most of my classmates went outside because we were all crying after that last scene with the door tbh this movie was awesome 👌
That ending traumatized me!
we got shown it in 6th grade here in germany and after we seen real footage and its still hits me everytime
@@aaronderunheilige385 Yeah, we saw real footage too afterwards.
@@meganlodon i mean we all knew the stories but to see the real footage breaks my heart everytime
That one guy knew that Bruno didn't belong because he still had hair
I read the book, Bruno had a shaved head at the time when he went into the camp, because of lice. And he was missed for a time, before they found his clothes at the fence. So his body burned days or weeks ago, before the family realised what happened to his son. But clear for the film they need more excitement.
@@82smeagol Yeah I read that part on Wiki
I think it’s supposed to be Pavel, if I recall correctly
And he didn’t even say or do anything to stop him from entering the chamber he was just like okay
@@Getstr8cash of course he didn't want Bruno to die. There was nothing he could do about it so there was no point in saying anything
This movie is truly heartbreaking... You can see how much this "new job" affects his wife and Bruno.. The daughter is brainwashed by the papers she reads.. Bruno just wanted to make a friend and he didn't understand what was happening..
Poetic justice is what one calls the ending. The two wee babies holding hands as they were being gassed. Heart. Breaking. This is a fictionalised story, but it’s based on real life events.
I studied History and teach it as well. The movie is historically very inaccurate though and a highly problematic movie. At the end the audience moans the death of the german boy not the jews, very bad ending and not historically accurate at all. Movies like "Zone of Interest" are way better.
Very intense movie, from my memory from watching it in school I thought they gassed them in the chamber not burned them. I haven’t watched this in so long, but it’s so sad. Definitely crazy that this happened, and very informative movie
They did gas them! They burned the bodies after which explained the horrible smell
They did gas them, but they cremated the bodies after.
They did gas them. They were killing so many people a day that burying them was to much work so they burned them afterwards
Why, did they actually burn them?
@@myheartwillstopinjoy8142 I believe they burned them either because they were sick and too weak to work or it was punishment for something they did. Honestly a number of reasons.
I watched it in 6th grade and everyone was crying screaming and some left traumatized it was insane the teacher said sorry to everyone and she was crying too
This film is highly intense and disturbing at times, especially the ending.
But I’m glad you guys didn’t watch Schindler’s List, that’s an absolutely horrific film to watch. But it is a masterpiece nonetheless
Same here all the teacher were crying when I was in 6th grade
My mom was extremely religious back in 2009. Out of nowhere, she went on a Holocaust movie marathon and she told me to watch them on my own when I get the chance. The Pianist was the first. This film (Boy in the Striped Pajamas) was my second and really hit hard. It's one thing to see death camps all around you as an adult, but imagine discovering these camps through your eyes as a child. After watching all the Holocaust films and tv series ever made, I started visiting the Holocaust museum in D.C. every year on Remembrance Day.
History fact: the pellets they used for gassing is called Zyklon B. In the movie we don't actually see behind the door as they die. However, if you watch The Devil's Arithmetic, you'll see how the prisoners react to the gassing.
They weren't burnt they were gassed.
And then burnt
@@vusimcunu3803 Off course, but the cause of death was by deadly gas.
@@pipelinecenter still they were killed, and its sick!
No they were burned at some camps alive which is disgusting
What's worst to realize is that before burning them (they didn't burn alive), they killed all those people with gas, a slow and totally painful death. Humanity can be so cruel to the point to not even being capable to do such a thing without making them suffer. Sadly, regardless of our nation, religion and line of thought, we can benot only good, but also horrible creatures...amazing reaction and argument about the movie!
No at some camps they burned them alive
I remember my school got brought to the theatre to watch this. At the end, the entire crowd was dead silent.
My school just watched it in the classroom room and I think the whole class thinks I'm a serial killer or something because I laughed so hard at the end I was asked to leave
@@bingusbongus3109 Haha yeah, in fairness there are a lot of people who laugh uncontrollably when it's innapropriate or when something's not funny. I've done that before myself. Don't worry, you're not a serial killer... Yet... I hope...
What’s crazy to me is that when I watched this when I was a little kid I didn’t know about ww2 yet or the holocaust but this shit hit me so hard I couldn’t stop crying and when I rewatched it when I understood I cried so much more
We watched this movie in history class when I was 15. WW2 was (and is) my favorite thing in history. But we were shown this movie and I was so distraught, I literally wanted to flip myself out of the third story window. MAN this movie made my stomach drop. I felt empty for the rest of the day.
I just watched it today… I’m going through what you went through
I remember watching this in middle school, first year (so 6th) for English literature class, as we usually watched the movie adaptations of books we read (such as the giver and lord of the flies) as part of the curriculum. I'd never seen my classmates be so quiet during the movie, there were no questions, there wasnt even the typical whispering stupid shit to each other. it was in italy, a lot of my classmates were jewish or had jewish relatives including myself, but thinking back on it and comparing it to teens reactions on tiktok or even adults my age, we were probably the most stoic Id ever seen. as far as I remember, nobody cried, nobody really even commented on the end, but also no one took breaks or interrupted the movie.
same for my class. we all just kinda looked at each other after it happened
Basically...mom is DONE with dad totally, Dad would be executed or sent to the front lines (same thing ) if he tried to leave his post. Remember his brother was sent to the front lines for not telling on him.
The pain is the very same no matter what decade or culture. And this event probably really happened! Poor mom. ...
They were NOT executed when they refused to do this kind of "work". They did ist because they thought it was an important work. It was well paid, and the families lived an easy life, except when they felt empathy for the prisoners. No soldier was forced to work in a concentration camp.
You don't realize that this story is 100% fiction?!
This is not a story based on real events. Yes, there were concentration camps, yes, 6 million Jews died + various other victim groups (homosexuals, Sinti, Roma, priests...), yes, there were gas chambers, but the part about the son of a concentration camp commandant who was accidentally gassed because he had made friends with a child from the camp is such historical nonsense!!!
The camp fences were strictly guarded, a child like Shmuel would never have been able to sit unnoticed on the fence and play with a child like Bruno. Shmuel would have been shot. Even if Bruno had tried to crawl under the fence, he would have died from the electricity on the fence. An 8-year-old boy in Auschwitz would either have been gassed immediately upon arrival or would have been sent to Mengele for experiments.
Bruno would have been raised and indoctrinated to the maximum. The wife of a commander would never have protested, she would have gone along with it wholeheartedly, even before the move, Bruno would have learned all this at school, learned to hate Jews, learned that Jews were allowed to die, learned that Jews were not human beings.
There was not a single Bruno in history, but millions of Shmuels who died in this way.
Not one German mother had to experience the death of her 8-year-old son in this way. In other ways during the war, by bombs of course, but not like this.
It would never have been possible for the mother not to have known what was going on in the concentration camp. The absolute majority of Germans knew that these "rumors" were the truth. After all, there was enough forced labor spread across the country, German companies that made concentration camp prisoners work to death, or (like today's pharmaceutical company Bayer) used them for drug testing. There were concentration camps within Germany, just think of Dachau or Bergen-Belsen.
All Germans saw the freight trains heading east. All Germans experienced the "Kristallnacht" pogroms and all Germans experienced the dismissal of Jewish work colleagues, the expropriation of Jewish neighbors, the deportations. "We all knew it. Anyone who says otherwise is just denying it." - Quote, my grandma, German, born in 1928
The parents probably divorced after this whole ordeal
Definitely
Ran away probably to avoid the SS coming after her.
@@jacksonconley5117 What's the SS?
The SS is the organization ran by Hitler to enforce his antisemitic policies @@Isabella-tu9fb. They’re the group who is directly responsible for the millions of deaths in the Holocaust. They’re target anyone who opposes Hitler and his beliefs.
@@Isabella-tu9fbare you asking or telling I'm not that old but asked my m8 he said it was like an elite milatary of nazis I could be wrong
It’s so sad… that things like this actually happened and that people were treated like this especially kids😢
Still happening
Still happening in Palestine and by who? Thr same people whos ancestors this happened to
In my opinion *Life is Beautiful* & *The Pianist* are the best movies on this topic I recommend checking them out
Personally, my favorite is Seven Beauties dir. by Lina Wertmuller. One of the reasons the Piano was a standout is because the director, Roman Polanski, was a child in the Warsaw Ghetto. His parents heard they were coming for the children and the pushed him out through a break in the wall. He became one of the many orphans wandering Europe trying to stay alive until the war ended.
I watched the pianist on the flight to Germany, I absolutely loved it, such an amazing movie
Me and my daughter watched this. Then at school. We both had tears. But it is essential in british schools.
I've only seen this movie once. I never found the courage to go through that emotion again. It got me the most when everything was so loud when they were led to the chamber, and then next second it was dead silent.
i’m so glad you made that bruno joke 😂😂 you said what we were all thinking.
also if it makes you feel better, i never watched this movie prior to this video. the ending made my heart break into tiny little pieces 😭😭
This is the first ever movie where I read the book first before watching. I saw the book on sale in a small kiosk, unaware that it's gonna be done as a movie. I was just into these period of history. The book broke my heart, imagine how much worse I felt when I saw this movie.
Just for the record, they were not set on fire, they were gassed to death in a ags chamber and burnt their bodies. And what happened to bruno would have been impossible for many reasons, but it would have happened to shmuel
What do you mean impossible How would anybody prevent him from getting into their if he had a cap on
What makes the end so eerie and unsettling is the silence after the gassing
They took them to the 'showers" and they were locked in and gassed.
and then they were burnt after..
The first time I watched this I had no Idea about it, I had a general idea of what topic its about, but damn, it hits hard.
First time I watched this i was inconsolable for a week straight. It's absolutely devestating.
Facts !
The main kid Bruno actors name is Asa Butterfield. I know him from this, Hugo and miss perigrans home for peculiarities children. He’s also in s*x education. Oh and nanny McPhee
The Boy in Striped Pajamas and Schindler's List should be in the same universe.
They kinda are. They happened in our universe, not even a hundred years ago.
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One of those life moments when folks do not GET IT until it affects them personally.
We read the book in primary school (higher elementary school) in the UK. The two young actors were phenomenal in this film. I remember visiting a ww2 air raid shelter, aswell as visiting an old Victorian (late 1800s) type school before I was 12. I live in Scotland and the fact that so many Americans don’t know the holocaust or the history of what actually took place is astounding to me. We have a lot of Polish people in the UK, especially in Aberdeen, as well as other Eastern European people. So many polish people I know have visited auschwitz concentration camp when they were at school. I could never though. You can see the ‘striped pajamas’ if you visit.
I've been so busy lately i haven't had time to watch your guys vids, this was such an old time flash back to come back and watch haha
At my old school, we read the book version because the district or whatever said it was too inappropriate for school to actually watch the movie and so we always read the book as a class and we would have to ask our parents for permission to watch the movie but we couldn't watch it at school
WHY DOESNT SHE LAUGH AT ANY OF HIS JOKES?!?!?!?!
The boys went into a gas chamber, not an incinerator. Also, the movie that the men were watching, and that Bruno saw, was not a parody, but a propaganda film. It's so sad what's NOT taught in school any longer.
They burned the bodies after gassing dummy
18:13 it’s an advertisement to the public. But it’s a complete lie of the camps they were actually put in.
I read the book first and my teacher said it was very sad but I didn’t know why it was so sad until the ending when my teacher told us what happened, there was a moment of silent and I spent the next 38 hours heartbroken and worse, the song payphone was stuck in my head
I had a similar experience to this when my year 3 teacher put on Tarzan and that beginning with the baby gorilla getting eaten got me down, and when the teacher said it was sad I thought it was gonna be some random scene
"Grey Zone" an underrated movie, based on real events about a revolt in concentration camp.
Asa Butterfield was also in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
Guys this is a cakewalk compared to Schindler's List
btw the german soldier were soldier. The ones with ᛋᛋ on the collar, well, they weren't meant to be taken as prisoners
Correct
While this films has a lot of intense and disturbing moments, especially the ending it’s nowhere near as horrifically violent and graphic as Schindler’s List
The pain I felt seeing the final minutes of this movie KNOWING what is about to come. I kept saying “NOOO NOOO NOOO.” And the fear I felt when he went inside the camps
This movie freaked me out because I expected Bruno to rescue, or to try to rescue, Schmaul from the concentration camp (or at least confront his father regarding him). I was not expecting the ending at all.
Watched it in middle school after we read the book. Pretty good movie.
6:11 that's exactly how I felt being an only child. 😂
I show this every year to my 8th graders. It is right before we read a graphic novel about a survivor. I need it to give weight to what could happen. To make them care. Because if we just read a graphic novel, they won't "get it." After that ending? You bet their ass they do after this.
Also, the book does give an ending beyond the chamber. The father becomes disillusioned and pretty much gives up to the Soviets when they take over the camp, as in he didn't want to fight anymore after losing his son.
They were gassed to death, not burned.
And then burnt
The staircase area looks like prison bars
btw they didn't burn them they put gas in the room the rooms were closed and the process was around 10 minutes it was painful and slow usually kids would stay alive the longest cause their immunitary system is stronger than the other older people there.
The first time I watched this I was in total shock at the end. This is the most depressing story put on film and I will take that to my grave. True Friendship will always be there even in the darkest times of History.
A good movie for school, i think the pianist would've been great too
This movie made me ans my mom cry watching it jesus
One of the few movies in which the ending left me speechless 🙆🏾♀️😢
I didn't watch this movie in school either. Then again, I was out of school long before this movie came out. My history lessons consisted of "Okay class, open your textbooks to page...". We didn't watch movies. However, Schindlers list I understand because that was based on witness testimony, but this movie's story and characters are fictional. As such, it doesn't make sense that they'd show this movie in a history class. That would be like watching The Last Samurai for a class on Japanese history. Good movie and loosely based on some actual events, but overall a work of fiction.
what platform does this movie stream on
When I saw this movie, at the end it was shocking. The father chose to join the Nazi party
I know this is a sad movie ive seen it six times but 2:13 made me choke while i was drinking my water and laugh!!!!🤣
No judgement you have the right to feel your feelings
I saw this advertising across my feed for. ...a few years...but was never inclined to watch it. ...until a few months ago.
So much was going on within me afterwards! Every emotion possible hit me hard. I could only weep.
We've read and watched the movies and documentaries but they don't really prepare your mind and heart for a fraction of what the reality of these events actually were...that's what I felt after finally watching this movie. This is the only time that I'm watching this since. (Cannot watch it again)
This movie left me very bad, I really cried for 3 days in a row
To this day some Germans deny it ever happened..the reason is that the ones involved were not allowed to talk about it..not even to their families..
It never happened
Bridge to Terabithia has to be next
Mhm very good movie
WE DONT TALK ABOUT BRUNO!!!! Why didn’t she laugh 😢😭
Bro got defensive when she asked if he learnt about it in school 😂😂 relax bro
Huh? I’m the one who said it I admitted to that lol I’m confused but I already know how this is gonna go so imma say HAVE A BLESSED DAY and head out lol
Thanks for watching though
Speaking of the hunger games, you guys should watch Jennifer Lawrence's movie "mother!" It Is a very intense movie
Asa/Bruno is so cute and innocent 😭😭
First time I watched this movie I almost threw up. This shit is gut renching. The horror and suffering. Karma is real though.
0:01 nice intro, one of the best i've seen
Thank you 🙏🏼
@@mrflickswatches an unusual combination of authenticity and professional slick. 👍🏼😎
@@mrflickswatches To answer your question they were were not burning them in that chamber they were poisoning them with cyinide, hence the term gas chamber's
15:13 that got me 🤣
It's a sad movie but it's one of my favorites because it shows how much those 2 friends didn't see themselves as different they just saw them as friends and people they didn't understand but the fact the world was like that is messed up and they say history repeats itself I hope noone ever gets treated the way the Jews did
I cry so hard
If you where a Nazi in Those Days, General or Hi Rank, loosing your Child is the worst thing especially if there where your son
Grave of the fireflies
If this movie made you mad(which it did), means you have a heart.
I literary 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Okay this is a FABLE. A little boy that age would be gassed on arrival. I use this book as a part of my curriculum about the Holocaust. The camp is Aushwitz-Birkenau one of the 5 death camps.
Terblinka
Chelmno
Dachau
Sorbibor
Aushwitz-Birkenau
I though somehow towards the end before the gas chamber I though the spillers would recognize Bruno and take him back home so he lives but because he was wearing the same clothes as everyone else there was no way of telling that he wasn’t a Jew
It’s not rlly like a parody it’s supposed to be propaganda
How sad I cried like a baby
This movie was heartbreaking in my opinion
Is the worst thing to happen to even a Nazi general loosing their own Child
i hope they show list , this and jojo rabbit just to lighten the mood
Most german soldiers had no idea what went on in the labor camps. After the war we showed them video of the bodies, camps. They got sickened, and that's why there's basically no German war vets that spoke about their war time. Everyone thinks they all did this stuff
They just didn't want to believe it. They convinced themselves that it was just rumors, but EVERYONE knew it.
I am German, my grandparents grew up in this system, and I even got to know two of my great-grandparents, who were already adults at the time, as a small child. Like many of my compatriots, I once read private family diaries.
Of course they knew it.
The shock of the soldiers and residents after the Allies showed them the reality was partly deliberately faked (one of my grandfather's uncles wrote this in his diary; he did it in the hope of being released from captivity earlier), or was due to the difference between knowing something in theory and seeing and experiencing it in practice.
All Germans saw the crimes against the Jews with their own eyes.
The mass dismissals, long before the war began. The closure of Jewish schools. The marking with the yellow stars. The expropriations - my great-grandfather was entered in the land register for a house that previously belonged to his Jewish neighbor, of course my great-grandfather knew that a Jew had been expropriated there just like that and that the entire Jewish family had been deported.
All Germans saw the freight trains heading east.
In many cities the victims were publicly driven through the streets to the freight station.
Forced laborers worked in so many German companies, German employees were given instructions on how to deal with them, pharmaceutical companies were given concentration camp prisoners for research purposes, all of whom died. Ask Bayer, a German company, what they did between 1933 and 1945.
Anyone who had a job in Germany at that time, in a reasonably large company, experienced the violence against forced laborers. They were even employed in small villages and in agriculture and worked themselves to death.
Of course, German chemical companies noticed the increased demand and orders for poison gas, and no, this could not be kept secret from the regular workforce either.
All Germans saw the November Kristallnacht pogroms of 1938 with their own eyes, the burning houses, synagogues and people. Public executions and deportations of Jews on a large scale. Blood stains that could still be seen on the ground days later, my grandmother (10 at the time) described in her diary.
Quote translated into English: "When mom slaughters a pig, there is significantly less blood. I can't imagine that a person who has lost so much blood is still alive. The street in front of my house feels like a grave. No matter where those who are still alive are taken, I can't believe that they will live there for much longer. But dad says it serves them right. It is for the good of all if the Jews die."
Now please also consider that there were people who worked in concentration camps in the middle of the country (Dachau, Bergen-Belsen etc.). People lived nearby and you can smell the burned corpses for miles, depending on the direction of the wind. It is such an unmistakable smell. Even the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls had their own visits to concentration camps. The children learned to hate from an early age.
It shoul go off the rails at the atfer the ending at have the dad go mental and find the guy with the mustahce and kill him like what arthur was goikg to do to micha but i am accept this is fully serious
Elsa Doesn't Deserve It But Gretel Did Because She Did Not Like Bruno However I Think His Death Has Changed
Her Life Forever And Now She Regrets Her Actions And Misses Him I Would Love To See Bruno And Shmuel Get Reincarnated As Brothers And Have Them Unable To Touch Showers Due To What Happened In This Movie And
As They Get Older We See Them Meet His Mother And Gretel As She Apologizes To Him And I Would Also Like
To See The Prisoner Number That Shmuel Once Had In 1942 Like A Birthmark
This isn't fantasy. This is real life.
@@fangurkseraphBruno and Shmuel did not exist but the story of nazis killing Jews did
@@fangurkseraph The events were based on a true story although this movie is fictional so i supposed it's ok if one wants to come up with an alternate ending
@@shizukahachigatsu8305 That's awfully disrespectful
@@fangurkseraph I don't think so. The comment was pertaining to the movie and not the real events
I seen this movie in school
Sad new generations don't know about Zyklon B...but still...horrible what happened back then
If it didn't upset you, I'd be worried!!!! This is why history is so very important .... so we learn from it and don't repeat it! I think these were gassed. Remember the hole in the roof when he looked up and the man had on a gas mask while he was dropping it into the room!
Make Reaction Downfall (2004)
Read a book my guy
10:58 😆
I studied History and teach it as well. The movie is historically very inaccurate and a highly problematic movie. At the end the audience moans the death of the german boy not the jews, very bad ending and the whole plot is so poorly constructed while lacking any kind of logic or historically accurate informations. Movies like "Zone of Interest" are way better.
2:45 "Heil Hitler!", we can translate it like "Salute Hitler / Long live Hitler" was the greeting used by the german soldiers and by the people in official contest, behind1933 and 1945 in Nazi Germany
MAYBE IM OLDER BUT WE WATCHED SCHEINDLERS LIST IN SCHOOL
Right in the beginning "I don´t think it´s Hitler himself." "No, he does not have the mustache."
I like these two. And I´m not the type that puts down young people just for being young. But those lines really hurt. Is WW2 and what happened there really THAT forgotten already?!? I´m close to 40, but we learned about this at age 12. Granted, I´m not from the US, so no idea how it´s over there.
edit: Sorry to bother you after 2 months.
@@IstvanThree Absolutely agree about the hurt part. Especially considering the girl apparenrly watched this movie in school back then, apparently. I'd think having Hitler be the father of the protagonist would be something one would remember.
I mostly got the feeling they reacted to the movie for reaction's sake, and that made it a bit shallow feeling for me. Oh well.
@@fangurkseraph Sadly, with all these thousands of react channels it´s difficult to say who means it and who doesn´t. But to imagine someone watching this or Schindlers List or *insert movie* and does a cryface for clicks is pretty... mh, almost sickening.
Again - nothing against these two, not accusing them.
But even Hitler being childless is pretty much common knowledge, at least here.
Whatever... today´s problems seem to be of another kind, who needs to remember WW2 and it´s implications 🤷♂
Same but I was to young to really take it in as I got older hits diff
We read the book in school
They weren't burned they were gassed
Bruh i cantttttt