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The Book Thief: Fact and Fiction

The Book Thief: Fact and Fiction. By: Jessica Brunt. Molching Overview. Fictional place Located on the outskirts of Munich Based on Olching and Munich Germany Bombed in 1943, not all of the characters survive. Molching -Main Settings. Liesel lives on Himmel Street The Amper River

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The Book Thief: Fact and Fiction

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  1. The Book Thief:Fact and Fiction By: Jessica Brunt

  2. Molching Overview • Fictional place • Located on the outskirts of Munich • Based on Olching and Munich Germany • Bombed in 1943, not all of the characters survive

  3. Molching-Main Settings • Liesel lives on Himmel Street • The Amper River • Grand 8 Strauss, the mayor’s house • Dachau concentration camp

  4. Olching Overview • Real Town • located on the outskirts of Munich • The Amper river runs through it

  5. Olching Overview • Dachau concentration camp was located near by • Had many third Reich and the national socialist party supporters • Bombed on February 22, 1944

  6. The Amper River Coat of Arms Real Life: Olching The Book: Molching • Liesel and Rudy have many adventures here. • Runs through or around Molching • Main source of water for agriculture • Runs straight through the middle of the town The Amper river

  7. Dachau Concentration camp Real Life:Olching The Book: Molching • Never fully described • Where one of the characters is taken • First concentration camp created • Originally a labor camp • Located 10 miles NW of Munich • Many Medical experiments took place here Dachau gates

  8. Dachau Entry register

  9. Himmel Street Real Life: Himmelstrasse Himmel Street in the Movie Himmelstrasse In Sobibor The Book: Himmel Street • The street where Liesel Lives • Translates to “heaven” • One of the main settings in the book • A path in The Sobibor extermination camp • Led from the undressing area to the gas chambers • Fenced in by camouflaged barbed wire

  10. Death DescribesHimmel Street • “The buildings appear to be glued together, mostly small houses and unit blocks that look nervous. There is murky snow spread out like carpet. There is concrete, empty hat-stand trees, and grey air.”( page 26) • “Whoever named Himmel street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that it was a living heck. It wasn’t . But it sure as heck wasn’t heaven , either.” (Page 25)

  11. The Bombing Real Life:Olching The Book: Himmel Street • Bombed in 1943 • The sirens were not a fast enough warning • Only one survivor • Everything was destroyed • Bombed on February 22, 1944 • Mostly destroyed rail yards • 22 people died

  12. Death Describes the bombing • “No one wanted to bomb Himmel Street. No one would bomb a place named after heaven, would they? Would they?“(Pages 497-498) • “The bombs came down, and soon, the clouds would bake and the cold raindrops would turn to ash. Hot snowflakes would shower to the ground. In short, Himmel street was flattened.”(Page 498)

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