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Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. Her parents were Otto Frank and Edith Hollander.
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Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. The first anti-Jewish laws were made.
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The first concentration camp was established by the Nazis at Dachau, Germany. Jews couldn't do many things at all.
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Her father got a job at Amsterdam, so they left Germany. Anne enrolled at a Montessori school in Amsterdam.
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Germany passed the Nuremberg Laws, denying Jews German citizenship, forbidding marriage between Jews and non-Jews, and taking away their education.
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Kristallnacht was the "Night of the Broken Glass." Germans beat and killed the Jews, loot Jewish stores, and burn synagogues.
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Germany invades Poland; World War II begins. France and Great Britain delcare war on Germany two days later.
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Japan joins Germany.
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Anne and her family go into hiding after Margot recieves an order to appear for deportation to a labor camp in Germany.
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Japan surrenders after the United States drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. World War II ends one week later.