The documentary Auschwitz – The Genocide Plan and the feature film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas demonstrate the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. Both texts, although of different types, fiction and non-fiction, make us sympathize with the Jewish race which was being mercilessly killed. The texts reveal the cruelty of the massacres perpetrated by the Nazis and how many Germans were unaware of the massacres taking place in their country. The feature film also shows that the older generation brainwashed the younger generation into devoted Nazi youth. During World War II, the Germans carried out the Holocaust of the Jewish race. The Germans invaded several different cities and countries and took the Jews to concentration camps and eventually killed them. The Germans killed around six million Jews because of their racial superiority. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas takes place in this era. The film also centers on the Holocaust where Bruno's father Ralph is an SS commander in the Russian army. He is promoted and the family must therefore move to Auschwitz. Ralph is the commander in charge of the Auschwitz concentration camp. His son Bruno, whose point of view we see throughout the film, befriends a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp, which turns out to have initial and unintended consequences. Meanwhile, through the documentary, we see the other side; artifacts, plans and designs of incinerators and interviews with various engineers to learn the reality of how the Nazis were able to kill so many Jews. The older generation plays a very important role in why these ruthless soldiers killed so many people. The older generation is like a symbol of the Naz...... middle of paper ......uh. And then the scene in the film, where we see a bunch of naked dolls representing the dead Jews – it's a brilliant analogy created by the director to then show the extent of Gretel's change. The director also positions us to reject and hate Gretel's set of values, which we subsequently do, while we are positioned to accept Bruno's. Comparing the two texts: Auschwitz – The Genocide Plan and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, we see that both texts managed to gain public sympathy for the millions of Jews mercilessly killed. Both texts use various conventions to achieve this and also to position the audience. Although the feature film was more successful than the documentary, the film presented the subject in a more entertaining manner unlike the documentary where it was about all the facts and details of the Holocaust and in a more or less boring manner..