The book is set in Nazi Germany from 1939 to the end of the war in 1942. More specifically in the fictional town of Molching near to non-fictional concentration camp Dachau. The political climate was one of

Much of the setting is based around snow, and white is almost always represented as so.

Often, with death narrating, the sky and it’s colour is described. Death seems to make a point about including this sort of information.

Sensory

The Other side of sandpaper – page 64

Liesel watched the Himmel Street sky.

Their voices were full of song, culminating in a roaring rendition of “Deutschland uber alles.”