This quote is relevant as death associates moments with color, and in this instance death uses colour to portray an entire race of people which is relevant to modern racism in todays society, and how colour is relative to life and death in historical periods like Nazi Germany. In town bombings the sky has been described as blood red,  plane crashes explained to be black but for the death of Jews in Germany that summer, it was so severe that death has no color to associate with it. ... This quote is also ironic, as in one half it explains how summer was going nicely for Liesel the German child...

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