We are currently celebrating (?) , memorializing Kristalnacht, the night of broken glass, which occurred on the 9th/10th of November in 1938, 75 years ago, and about the time my big brother was born. "The Book Thief" an excellent movie based on the excellent novel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_Thief by Markus Zusak.
The book/movie is not heavily involved in the destruction of the Jews of Europe, or the guilt of Germany. It is rather the simple story of a sensitive teenager given up by her mother for economic or political reasons (no clear reason given) and how she and her adoptive parents face the war, anti-Semitism, and just plain human pain.
I really enjoyed both the book and the movie, and highly recommend it as an excellent story and good insight into the life of common people in Nazi Germany.
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