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 mayors 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

THE AMPER RIVER

Coat of Arms
The Book: Molching
Real Life: Olching

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

DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP

The Book: Molching
Real Life:Olching

Never fully described

First concentration camp created Originally a labor camp Located 10 miles NW of Munich Many Medical experiments took place here

Where one of the

characters is taken

Dachau gates

DACHAU ENTRY REGISTER

HIMMEL STREET
Himmel Street in the Movie

The Book: Himmel Street

Real Life: Himmelstrasse

Himmelstrasse In Sobibor

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

DEATH DESCRIBES HIMMEL 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 hatstand 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 wasnt . But it sure as heck wasnt heaven , either. (Page 25)

THE BOMBING
The Book: Himmel Street
Real Life:Olching

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

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)