Schmuel does give a correct answer for a boy his age, but if he had been older, vital pieces of information are missing. I know this because he refuses to talk about some bits of his travel to Auschwitz with Bruno. The Nazi's took all the Jews out of their houses and moved them from camp to camp, kidnapping or killing those who hid. They are currently starving the Jews at Auschwitz and they determined who were Jews by the armbands everyone had to wear. On Schmuel's side of the fence, they're all working and not eating.
The reason the Nazi's chose the first symbol is because many other cultures wore it and it meant to be good. Hitler, believing his actions were pure, thought it would be the perfect symbol. Before Hitler used it, it was connected to good things.
(About.com)
The Jewish had to use the second symbol as means of identification. They were made to humiliate the Jews and mark them for segregation.
(British Library)
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