What rank was Bruno's dad?

Following the war, he rose through the ranks of the Nazi Party. In the months before the beginning of the novel, Adolf Hitler promoted Father to the rank of commandant then shortly thereafter offered him the position at Out-With.
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What is Bruno's father's title?

After a visit by Adolf Hitler, whose title The Führer Bruno commonly mispronounces as "Fury", Bruno's father Ralf is promoted to Commandant of the death camp Auschwitz, which Bruno mispronounces as "Out-With".
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What was Bruno's father promoted to?

Ralf, Bruno's father, was a soldier in the Great War (World War I), and is promoted to Commandant in the German Army by Hitler during World War II.
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Why was Bruno's father now called commandant?

Bruno's father became a commandant at the concentration camp because he missed the order and honor of life in the military.
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What kind of person is Bruno's father?

Bruno's dad is pretty much what we'd expect from a Nazi commandant: strict, cold, businesslike, and powerful. In other words, a force not to be reckoned with by his wife or children.
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What ended up happening to Bruno's father?

Bruno's father was promoted to the commandant and the family moved to Poland for him to control Auschwitz.
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Who was Bruno's dad's boss?

In Chapter 11, Bruno uses “the Fury” to refer to Father's boss, Adolf Hitler.
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Why is Lieutenant Kotler transferred?

He is cruel to the prisoners, and taunts Bruno by calling him “little man,” something the boy despises. Kotler is eventually transferred away from Auschwitz when Father discovers that Kotler's father, a literature professor, fled from Germany in 1938 at the start of the war.
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What happened to Shmuel's father?

Bruno was glad to see his friend, but Shmuel looked more unhappy than usual. He told Bruno that his father had disappeared and that no one knew where he had gone. His father had left on work duty with other men, but none of them had returned.
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Was the boy in the striped pajamas filmed at Auschwitz?

The story shown in the film did not take place either in the Auschwitz camp or in any other camp. I will briefly discuss errors and inaccuracies related to the film, assuming that the authors meant the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.
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Why was Bruno's name changed?

But as the crew continued working on Encanto, they discovered that there are a substantially large number of people named Oscar Madrigal. As a result, they decided to change the name and gave a list of possible replacements to Miranda to see what name worked best for his music, making way for Bruno.
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Is The Boy in Striped Pajamas Based on a true story?

Many people who have read the book or watched the film adaptation believe that it is a true story based on real people and real events. However, it is important to understand that the book is a work of fiction. The events portrayed could never have happened.
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Will there be a boy in the striped pajamas 2?

John Boyne, writer of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, is releasing a sequel to the novel on September 15, 2022. All The Broken Places will be published by Doubleday and Penguin Random House in the U.S., Transworld in the U.K., and then receive a global release with 14 deals already completed.
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How old is Bruno in the book?

Bruno is a nine-year-old German boy and the novel's protagonist.
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Does Bruno have a lot of respect for his father?

Bruno loves and respects his father, but he is somewhat afraid of him. He walks slowly toward his office and hesitates before going in. The Commandant may be a good father, but he obviously puts his job first as Bruno is a little sad that his father was in the house and had not come to see him yet.
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Is Bruno's father the antagonist?

The Antagonist in the story "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas", is the Nazi Germans. The Nazi Germans include Lieutenant Kotler and Bruno's own Father, the Commander of the Concentration Camp.
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What was on Shmuel's arm?

Shmuel, like other Jewish victims of the Holocaust, was forced to wear the Star of David to denote his religion.
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Why did Bruno hold Shmuel's hand?

The boys were forced by the shuffling crowd into a long, airless room. Bruno felt glad to be out of the rain. He said to Shmuel he was sorry that they didn't find his father and that they didn't really get to play. Bruno took Shmuel's hand and told him he was his best friend: “My best friend for life.”
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What was Bruno's last question?

28. If you were Shmuel, how would you answer Bruno's last questions: “Why are there so many people on that side of the fence? And what are you all doing there?” 29.
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What word does Lieutenant Kotler call Pavel?

Kotler calls Pavel (the Jewish potato peeler) and orders him to get a tire from the storage shed; Pavel drags the tire to the oak tree and helps Bruno set it up.
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What did Kotler do to Pavel?

Pavel becomes thinner and frailer by the day, and is beaten (likely to death) by Kotler when he accidentally drops a wine bottle in Kotler's lap at dinner.
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What did Lieutenant Kotler do to the dog?

Lieutenant Kurt Kotler

He displays excessive cruelty toward the Jews at the camp, and Bruno witnesses him kill a dog.
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What is Bruno's original name?

The character of Bruno had already evolved during the film's creation. In an early iteration, he was much younger, someone Mirabel's age. He was also originally named Oscar, but Bush said a legal snag over the existence of a number of real-life Oscar Madrigals in Colombia, led them to explore other name options.
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What did Bruno's dad do for Maria?

Bruno's father paid for Maria to join them in Auschwitz to continue being the family housekeeper. Maria's mother had been a seamstress for Bruno's...
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What is Bruno's power called?

Precognition: Bruno has the ability to see the future.
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