The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

   The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was an excellent movie.  The movie showed how much of the German public knew nothing of what the Nazi's were actually doing to the Jewish people.  Bruno, who is the son of a German leader of a concentration camp.  Bruno befriends a house keeper his family has from the camp, soon Bruno's mother finds out what is actually happening to the people that work the camp. 
   Bruno's mother is told by a soldier that the people on the camp are being killed and burned.  Bruno is caught by his mother wandering into the back yard, of course Bruno being a young boy wants to know what is back there and eventually he sneaks past everyone and makes it to the camp.  At the camp Bruno befriends a young boy that is his age and starts asking questions.  Bruno does not ever realize what the severity of his friends reality actually is.  Bruno and his friend decide that Bruno could sneak under the fence to help his friend find his father.  Bruno is then herded into a gas chamber and before his family realized what happened to him he is gassed with the other people of the camp.
   The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a great example of irony.  Bruno's father is a commander of a Nazi death camp and while he kills his so called enemies he also ends up killing his son.  The Nazi's felt as if by killing the Jews they were making the world a better place, but in reality the were just ruthlessly killing people and in the movie it gave them a dose of their own medicine.