The story tries to support the thesis that children are not born with prejudice and hatred, but are instead taught that way of thinking. However, to make this point, the story suspends much of reality to forge an unlikely friendship between Bruno and Shmuel. However, while the message is clearly good, it seriously misrepresents life during the Holocaust and may mislead uneducated viewers about the level of danger and cruelty in the camps. This begs the question: Is it moral to use the Holocaust to teach a lesson if the truth of the Holocaust is confused and softened in the process? Don't these inaccuracies give the viewer the impression that a child can survive quite well in a camp and possibly escape? This does not do justice to the million and a half children who died during the Holocaust. Furthermore, it paints the Nazi family in a light that offers them plausible deniability. This appears to shift all responsibility to the SS officers in charge. Although not all Germans were aware of the activities in the concentration camps, all German people are responsible for the atrocities of the Holocaust, from which the film appears to absolve