The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

By knutsoch2021

  • Book Starts

  • Bruno discovers he's moving

    When Bruno arrived home from school, he discovered his Mother and the families maid, Maria packing up his things. This was because Bruno and his family were moving to 'Auschwitz', or 'Out-With' for father's job because it was very important.

  • Bruno moves to Auschwitz

    The family move to 'Auschwitz' or 'Out-With' as Bruno pronounces it. The new house is not as nice, or as large as the old house in Berlin. Bruno dosen't really like it because there are no places for him to go exploring and no other children are around.

  • Herr List was hired to teach

    Herr List was hired to continue schooling Gretel and Bruno. He taught them about the war and why the Jew's were evil people. The things they learned about the war may have seemed to complicated for children of there age to be learning.

  • Resistance of the Warsaw Ghetto Crushed.

    German troops crush the last resistance of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and kill thousands of Jews. The rest are sent to the Treblinka concentration camp to die.

  • Italy declares war on Germany

  • Father tells Bruno that they will be going back to Berlin.

    Bruno's Mother and Father both believed that Auschwitz was not a place for children to be growing up and living. Mother, Gretel an Bruno will be moving back to Berlin.

  • Failed Assassination of Hitler

    German military leaders attempt but fail to kill Adolf Hitler in the Rastenburg Assassination Plot. Hitler then kills about 200 suspected plotters. U.S. troops make an amphibious assault on the Japanese -held island of Guam in the Marianas.

  • Failure to shorten the war

    The ambitious Allied airborne assault in Arnhem, Holland known as the Operation Market-Garden, fails to shorten the war against Germany.

  • Battle of the Bulge

    Germany begins its last-ditch offensive in the Ardennes, beginning the Battle of the Bulge.

  • Bombing of Dresden

    The Allies begin firebombing Dresden, Germany, killing at least 135,000 people.

  • Hitler commits suicide

    Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide in a Berlin bunker as Soviet troops advance through the city. Nazi Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels is scheduled to become the new German Chancellor but he also kills himself -- after having his wife and six children killed. Karl Donitz is named as Hitler's successor.

  • WWII is over

    Japan signs the formal surrender agreement on board the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay. World War II is now over.