How It All Goes Down
The Last Chapter
- Several days later, the soldiers search the house, local towns, and villages for the disappeared Bruno. All they can find, though, are his clothes.
- Bruno's mother stays in the house waiting for news, but then goes back to Berlin, thinking he'll be there. He's not.
- Gretel goes with her, while their father stays at Auschwitz for another year.
- One day he forms a theory and retraces Bruno's steps—as he sits almost exactly where Bruno used to sit by the fence, he understands what happened.
- "Other soldiers" (a.k.a. the Allies) come to Auschwitz and order Bruno's father to go with them.