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Liutenant Kotler

By: Kimm Obang and Ana Garcia

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About Lieutenant Kotler

Lieutenant Kotler is presented in the book when Bruno and his family move to Out-With. He is a nineteen year old Nazi soldier who frequents Bruno's house often. He thinks of himself as important, throughout the book Lieutenant makes us aware of the Nazi cruelty towards Jews.

About Lieutenant Kotler

Kotler physical description is

  • A young blond man that is mostly always serious
  • He wears a black uniform without many decoration on it and black boots that were always polished
  • Wears a lot of cologne

Relationship with Bruno's Family

Lieutenant Kotler treats Father's family in a insincere way were he wants to impress Father, and acts friendly with Mother and Gretel, but has a rasping relationship with Bruno.

Relationship with Bruno's Family

Wile Gretel and mother greatly enjoy Kotler's presence, Bruno feel's a cold and unpleasant feeling when Liuetenant is around.

Kotler and Gretel

Quote from book

"Lietenant Kotler was deep in conversation with Gretel and whatever he was saying must have been terribly funny because she was laughing loudly twirling her hair around her fingers into ringlets" (72).

  • It is obvious that Gretel, Bruno’s older sister develops a crush on him
  • Lieutenant Kotler seems to be less formal when Father is not around because he makes jokes around with Gretel.

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Lieutenant Kotler and Mother

In the book Lieutenant and Mother have a brief affair. Mother even calls Kotler precious and often tells Bruno to leave wile they talk.

Quote from book

Mother enters, calling Lieutenant Kotler, "Kurt, precious" before realizing that Bruno is there (165).

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Lieutenant Kotler and Bruno

Bruno didn't like him because he always had a negative attitude and always called him “little man” because he was small. Lieutenant often made Bruno scared and intimidated he had no warmth in his eyes. Bruno always tried to avoid talking to Lieutenant Kotler but when they did talk bruno was always sarcastic.

  • Bruno was terrified because Lieutenant's actions were sudden. He was also scared after seeing all the horrifying actions Kotler did.

Lieutenant Kotler's Family

Lieutenant Kotler speaks about his family as if he were hidding something or felt ashamed.

Lieutenant's Family

Bruno's father invited Kotler over for dinner. Lieutenant Kotler talks about how he lost touch with his father who left Germany to go to Switzerland. Father asks some questions about why his father left instead of helping his country. Kotler acts nervous and says he doesn't know and he eventually gets transferred away from Out-With.

Awful thing's Lieutenant did

  • He was a cruel man. He likes to hurt people like Pavel. He accidently spilled wine over his lap and Kotler got really mad and he hurt him. Lieutenant also shot a dog for barking.
  • Another awful example, is when Shmuel went to Bruno’s house to polish the wine glasses because he had small fingers but then Bruno gave him some food, Shmuel reluctantly ate it as fast as he could. A few seconds later Lieutenant Kotler walked into the kitchen and accused Shmuel for stealing. Shmuel tried to deny it saying Bruno had gave the food to him as a gift and they were friends, but Bruno lied and claimed he knew nothing about Shmuel, taking action lieutenant Kotler sent Bruno up to his room and beat Shmuel after.

Conclusion

Conclusion

Overall, Lieutenant Kotler was the typical Nazi Soldier he had no warmth in his eyes. Because of him we can visualize how awful they treated Jews during the Holocaust. But something we can learn through this character is that how we treat others is how we are going to be treated. The reason why I say this is because I can infer that Lieutenant could of been sent away and killed because he might of been Jewish.

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