The movie I watched was The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. It is based on the novel, of the same name, written by John Boyne. The movie takes place in Germany during WWII when Hitler is trying to "purify" Germany by executing the Jewish population.
In the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas there is an 8 year old boy named Bruno who loves to explore. Bruno's father is a SS Officer, and Bruno, his mother, his father, and his sister all live happily in Berlin, Germany. Then Bruno's father receives a promotion and the family must move to a new home. Little does Bruno know that the home is closely located to a Nazi concentration camp where his father is the new commandant. He doesn't really understand what is going on, but people keep telling him that the Jews are bad and that they are deceiving Germany. Bruno doesn't really like the new house because there aren't any children nearby, and Bruno can't explore; He has to stay in the house or in the garden. One day Bruno looks out his window and sees a "farm" where there are children and farmers who wear pajamas. When Bruno asks if he can go play with the children, his father forbids it because he says, "they're not really people" and that they are odd because they wear pajamas. Disobeying his parents' orders, Bruno explores anyways and comes across the farm with the odd farmers. He finds an electric fence, and on the other side there is a little boy who's name is Shmuel. Shmuel is an 8 year old boy who is Jewish and who is in the concentration camp with his family. Bruno asks Shmuel why they wear pajamas and other things about the camp. Bruno tries to visit Shmuel everyday, and they play games through the fence, talk through the fence, and Bruno gives Shmuel food through the fence. Then one day Bruno's mother finds out that the concentration camp they are living near is actually an execution concentration camp, and she decides she needs to move the children away from the camp. The day before they are supposed to move away, Bruno makes a deal with Shmuel. After Bruno deceived Shmuel earlier in the movie, Bruno agrees to go into the camp, by going under the fence, and help Shmuel look for his father. The day Bruno's family is going to move, Bruno goes into the camp with Shmuel. They get corralled into a room where they are told they are going to receive a shower. In this room is where Shmuel and Bruno die because it is a gas shower. 
I thought the movie was really sad, but I think it did a really good job of showing the Holocaust time period in Germany. The movie depicted what most young children and Germans thought was going on in the camps. Many people didn't realize that the Nazis were killing the Jews: They just thought that they were taking the Jews to a camp to live where they weren't with the German citizens. I would rate this movie a 9.5/10. The only reason I didn't give it a perfect 10 is because I felt like they should have shown more of the concentration camps and the conditions in the camps. Overall though, I felt like the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a great movie about the Holocaust and about Germany during that time period.
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Excellent summary and reflections Emma!