Boy in Stripped Pyjammas

The Boy in Stripped Pyjamas

The novel The boy in stripped pyjamas is based on the political context of the events that followed Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939.Hitlers invasion of Poland was the beginning of world war two and would always be remembered for the atrocities the National Socialist German Workers Party, also known as the Nazi party committed against the Jewish population of the European countries they invaded. In 1935 Hitler passed the Nuremberg laws which forbid marriages and relationships between Jews and Aryans and annulled existing marriages between Jewish individuals and Aryans. Jews were not allowed to serve as civil servants and German Jews were stripped of their citizenship. This legislation was aimed at greatly reducing the legal and economic and social rights of Jewish people. Jewish individuals were not allowed to serve as civil servants and were stripped of their German citizenship. It was at this time Hitler spoke to his officers about the final solution for the Jewish individuals in Europe

Hitler ideology was that he believed in the supremacy of an Aryan master race and claimed that the Germans represented the most pure Aryan race. Hitler argued that Germany’s survival as a great nation required it to create a new order. An empire in Europe that would give the German nation the necessary land and mass resources, and an expanded population to be able to complete with other powers in terms of economics and military power. Hitler’s main aim of world war two was to achieve world domination for the German people and eliminate all races he classed as inferior, this included Jews, Blacks, gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals and even disabled people.

Anti Semitism was encouraged by Hitler in order to give German’s a scapegoat for the troubles the German people were having. Germany had been heavily taxed due to world war one and this combined with the great depression had sent the country...