the book thief: fact and fiction
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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
Grand 8 Strauss, the mayor’s house
Dachau concentration camp
OLCHING OVERVIEW
Real Town
located on the outskirts of Munich
The Amper river runs through it
OLCHING OVERVIEW
Dachau concentration camp was located near by
Had many third Reich and the national socialist
party supporters
Bombed on February 22, 1944
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
The Book: Molching Real Life: Olching
The Amper river
Coat of Arms
Never fully described
Where one of the
characters is taken
DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP
The Book: Molching Real Life:Olching
First concentration camp
created• Originally a labor camp
Located 10 miles NW of
Munich
Many Medical experiments
took place here
Dachau gates
DACHAU ENTRY REGISTER
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
HIMMEL STREET
The Book: Himmel Street Real Life: HimmelstrasseHimmel Street in the Movie
HimmelstrasseIn Sobibor
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)
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
THE BOMBING
The Book: Himmel Street Real Life:Olching
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)