Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)
Content:   The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (released as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in North America) is a 2008 tragedy film written and directed by Mark Herman. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by John Boyne. Set in World War II, the Holocaust drama relates the horror of a Nazi extermination camp through the eyes of two 8-year-old boys: Bruno (Asa Butterfield), the son of the camp's Nazi commander, and Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish prisoner. It was released in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2008.
Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Content:  his 'best friends for life', Daniel, Karl and Martin. From the house at Auschwitz, Bruno sees a camp in which the prisoners wear "striped pyjamas" (prison clothes). One day, Bruno decides to explore the wire fence surrounding the camp. As he walks along the fence, he meets a Jewish boy named Shmuel, who he learns shares his birthday and age. Shmuel says that his father, grandfather, and brother are with him on his side of the fence, but he is separated from his mother. Bruno and Shmuel talk and become very good friends, although Bruno still does not understand 
Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)
Content:  Bruno is a young boy living in Berlin in Nazi Germany during World War II. His soldier father, Ralf, gets promoted and relocates the family to the "countryside" (occupied Poland). Living without neighbours, far from any town, and with no friends to play with, Bruno becomes lonely and bored. After spotting people working on what he thinks is a farm – actually a concentration camp – he is forbidden from playing in the back garden. The tutor of Bruno and his sister Gretel, Mr Liszt, pushes an agenda of antisemitism and Nazi propaganda. This, together with Gretel's infatuation with Lieutenant 
Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)
Content:  many sick and frail Jews. The boys search for Shmuel’s father in one of the huts, but suddenly soldiers appear and everyone in the hut is taken to a large changing room. Back at the house, Gretel and Elsa discover Bruno's disappearance from the house, and Elsa bursts into Ralf's meeting to alert him. Ralf and his men mount a search, with Elsa and Gretel following. A dog tracks Bruno's scent to his discarded clothing outside the fence, and Ralf enters the camp. Meanwhile Bruno, Shmuel, and the other inmates are told to remove their clothes in preparation for 
Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)
Content:  Kotler, makes her fanatical in her support for the Third Reich, to the point of covering her bedroom wall with posters and a portrait of Adolf Hitler. Bruno is confused as the only Jew known to the family, their servant-prisoner Pavel, does not resemble the antisemitic caricatures in Liszt's teachings. Bruno sneaks into the woods, arriving at a barbed wire fence surrounding the camp. He befriends a boy named Shmuel, and their ignorance of the camp's true nature is revealed: Bruno thinks the striped uniforms that Shmuel, Pavel, and the other prisoners wear are pyjamas, and Shmuel believes his grandparents 
Title: John Boyne
Content:  The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was published in 2006. The book has sold over seven million copies worldwide. A Heyday/Miramax film adaptation, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, was shot in Budapest in mid-2007 and released in late 2008. Directed by Mark Herman, the film stars Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Rupert Friend and Sheila Hancock. In January 2020, the book was cited by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, in a set of back and forth tweets between the museum and the author, as a book that should be avoided by those promoting accurate understanding of the Holocaust. In response, Boyne suggested that the Museum's criticism contained inaccurate information.
Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)
Content:  Bruno and Gretel that their mother is taking them to live with family where it is safer; in actual fact, Elsa stood up to Ralf and does not want them living in the vicinity of the prison camp. Bruno visits Shmuel before he leaves, and learns that Shmuel's father has disappeared after being transferred to a different work gang. Bruno decides to redeem himself by helping Shmuel find him. Shmuel provides Bruno with a prisoner's striped outfit and a cap to cover his unshaven head, and Bruno digs under the fence to join Shmuel. He is shocked to see 
Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Content:  much about Shmuel and his side of the fence. Nearly every day, unless it is raining, Bruno goes to see Shmuel and sneaks him food. Over the time Bruno visits Shmuel, Shmuel gets more and more skinny. Bruno concocts a plan with Shmuel to sneak into the camp to look for Shmuel's father, as Shmuel says to Bruno that his father has disappeared. Shmuel brings a set of prison clothes, and Bruno leaves his own clothes outside the fence. As they search the camp, both children are rounded up along with a group of prisoners on a "march". They 
Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)
Content:  death for spilling a glass of wine. Bruno sees Shmuel working in his home, and offers him cake. When Kotler finds Bruno and Shmuel socialising, he berates Shmuel and notices him eating. Shmuel tells Kotler that Bruno offered the cake, which Bruno denies as he is afraid; Kotler tells Shmuel they will have a "little chat" later. Bruno tries to apologise to Shmuel later, but he's gone. Afterwards, Bruno sneakily sees his father and other soldiers watching a fake film of camp prisoners playing games, having meals in cafes and attending concerts. Bruno, thinking it is real, hugs his father. 
Title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Content:  In 2008, two years after being published, the novel was made into a movie The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, directed by Mark Herman. In 2017, the novel was adapted into a ballet by the Northern Ballet. The score is produced by Gary Yershon. Reviews of the ballet are generally negative with Zo and Euml Anderson of The Independent stating the casting of children's parts as adults works against "the naivety of a child's viewpoint," which the novel captures. The Yorkshire Post's review described the score as "a relentless assault on the ears," but apart from the music, it stated that it has redeemable quality in the cast, despite being depressing.

Question: when does the boy in the striped pajamas take place?
Answer: World War II.
during World War II.