WWII Pop Culture

Besides Maus, which we read in class this year, the only other book I read dealing with WWII was  also this year in english. A Separate Peace is a story about a boy attending prep school back east at the time when the war breaks out and the U.S. starts drafting young men. It shows intentions of going to war and the effects of going at such a young age. I have also seen two movies that relate to this topic. I saw Diary of Anne Frank, about a young Jewish girl who goes into hiding with her family, trying to escape the Nazi concentration camps, a few years ago. One of my favorite movies of all time is The Sound of Music, about a nun who goes to take care of the seven Von Trapp kids, whose father is wanted by Hitler himself to come work with the Nazis, forcing the whole clan to flee out of the country at the end.