4 real historical locations · Germany
Based on Markus Zusak's novel narrated by Death, this film follows a young German girl living near Munich who steals books and hides a Jewish man in the basement during the war. A story about the power of words in a world trying to destroy them.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Germany.
Liesel Meminger grows up on Himmel Street in fictional Molching — a Munich suburb — hiding a Jewish man in the basement as Allied bombing raids intensify.
Munich was bombed 74 times between 1940 and 1945 by the RAF and USAAF, killing approximately 6,000 civilians. The Allied strategic bombing campaign killed roughly 395,000 German civilians in total. The story's setting...
View location →Liesel accompanies Hans Hubermann on errands to Munich, witnessing Nazi book burnings and the public humiliation of Jewish citizens — the regime's violence m...
Munich was the birthplace of the Nazi movement. Book burnings occurred across Germany on 10 May 1933. The film is set in the fictional Munich suburb of Molching.
View location →The shadow of Dachau concentration camp falls over the fictional town. Max Vandenburg hides in the Hubermanns' basement knowing that this fate awaits any Jew...
Dachau, just 16 km from Munich, was the first Nazi concentration camp (opened March 1933). It held political prisoners, Jews, and others throughout the war. Over 41,000 died there.
View location →Allied bombing raids force Liesel and the residents of Molching into bomb shelters. The distant thud of bombs falling on Nuremberg previews the destruction t...
Nuremberg was heavily bombed by the RAF and USAAF from 1942 onwards. The final raid on 2 January 1945 killed over 1,800 civilians. The city was 90% destroyed by war's end.
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