three
potatoes
in their
skins
and
some
gravyr,
(Thaler
76).
Atthough
it
was
smatl,
it
was b-igger
than
what
they
would
normally
get.
Thater
states
that it
was
.a
feast to
him
and the
men
in his
bunk.
The
men
in
Dachau
were
constantly
so
th-irsty that
they
drank
shower
water:
('h/hen
it finarly
camer
w€
caught
it in
our
hands and mouths,,
(Thater
L12).people were dr.ink.ing
mud.
The
shower
was
a
btessing.
The
men
probably
hadn,t
had
any
fluid
i
n
days.
The
time period
that this
book
is set in is
during
the
Holocaust
(1933-1945).
The
Holocaust
was
a war
between
Nazi
Germans
and
the
Jews.
Around
6
mittion
Jews
were
killed
and
many
severety
injured.
Most
Jews
were
gassed
to
death.
Thater
was
a
part of
the
hidden
holocaust.
The
hidden
hotocaust
was
with
other
races
and
peopte
that didn,t
accept
to
be
a Nazi.
They
were
not
gassed
to
death
and
were
treated
a
stight bit better
than
the
Jews.
They
were beaten
rather
than
ki
lled.
There
are
many
reasons
why
the
started.
poss-ibty
because
of
Germany
also
might
be
because
Germans
voted
surprised
that this
happened
because
Holocausts
may
have
been
losing
Wortd htar
I. ft
Hitler in
power.
I
am
he
wrote
a
book
