The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

What did Bruno and his sister see through the window?

I am aware that they saw the concentration camp from their house. I just need some help adding details such as people and their emotions and why they don't understand what they see.

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To begin with, they weren't children at all. Not all of them, at least. There were small boys and big boys, fathers and
grandfathers. Perhaps a few uncles too. And some of those people who live on their own on everybody's road but don't seem to have any relatives at all. They were everyone.

There was a garden directly beneath Bruno's window. Quite a large one too, and full of flowers which grew in neat orderly sections in soil that looked as if it was tended very carefully by someone who knew that growing flowers in a place like this was something good that they could do, like putting a tiny candle of light in the corner of a huge castle on a misty moor on a dark winter's night.

Past the garden, they saw....

• a huge wire fence

• At (page 32) the top of the fence enormous bales of barbed wire were tangled in spirals

• no grass, no greenery

• low huts and large square buildings dotted around and one or two smoke stacks in the distance

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas