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Treaty of Versilles
Germany surrenders to allies and looses World War 1 and are forced to sign unfavorable. They loses land, military, and pay back money to winners. -
Hyper inflation
The prices rose from $2.37 then it went to $3,000,000,000 for a 2 pound loaf of bread!!!! -
Hitler bursts onto the scene
Beer-hall Putsch: Hitler attempts to overthrow the German government -
Hitler on trial
Uses trial to give huge speech further blaming Jews for problems of Germany. This made Hitler popular but yet he made Germany against Jews. -
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Germany Republic
The president was a popular war hero named Hindenburg but his health began to fail him in the early 1930's. GERMANY IS REPUBLIC!!! -
Anne is born
Anne Frank Birthday -
Reichstag's fire
Hitler blames Communists for fire. -
Enabling act
Gives power of decision making Hitler. Within a few months, all other political parties besides the Nazis were eliminated. This allowed Hitler to get rid of all his rivals. At this time, we see an Official Boycott of Jewish Businesses as well. -
Dachua
The first concentration camp was set up mostly for political prisoners. The camps were set up for imprisonment and hard labor, not for killing -
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HOLOCAUST
Great destruction by fire, extermination, or genocide. -
Nuremberg Laws
Nazis needed a way to identify Jews so they could discriminate them. Nuremberg Laws defined people with 3 or 4 Jewish Grandparents as "Jewish" and 1 or 2 as "Mixed blood". This denied citizenship of the Jews. -
Appeasement
German army moves into Austria and Germany annexes Czechoslovakia. To avoid war, other countries let them do it. -
Kristallnacht
This was the first act of violence with the Nazis -
Germany invades Poland
Which had 3 million Jews in its population. World War 2 begins.
"A world war will result in the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe." Said by Hitler. -
Nazi create Ghettos
Nazis start rounding up millions of Jews and confining them to Ghettos. -
Euthanasia program begins
Systematic killing of those Germans whom the Nazis deemed unworthy of life because of mental illness or physical disability. Eventually, 80,000 people with disabilities were killed. -
Death camps
first death camp opens at Chelmno (In central Poland) Vans with small gas chambers in the rear are used. -
Wannsee Conference
Nazi leaders approve the "FINAL SOLUTION" or plan to EXTERMINATE THE JEWS! -
EINSATZGRUPPEN
"Mobile killing units" and planned to use death camps. -
Dussel moves in
Mr. Dussel moves in. -
Hiding from nazis
THEY WENT INTO HIDING -
Warsaw ghetto uprising
Residents smuggled weapons in. Uprising lasted for about a month. SS troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising ended. -
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Prisoners fought back at death camps Treblinka and Sobibor
After stealing weapons from guards prisoners tried to escape. Most were killed but a few dozen made it out and survived the war. -
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Members of the Sonderkommando working in the crematorium fought SS guards killing over 70, but 250 as well as 200 others were killed in response. -
Found
Annex was discovered by the Nazis. -
Death marches
Allies advancing toward death camps and the Nazis evacuate prisoners march them into Germany to avoid capture. Brutal treatment and harsh conditions along the way. -
WWll ends
Hitler commits suicide rather than face capture by the Soviet Red Army. Germany surrenders within a week. -
Death of Anne
Anne Frank is confirmed dead -
HITLER
Hitler was the main cause for World War 2 and the Holocaust and was the chancellor of the Nazis. The time that is put is when he died. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Allied soldiers began freeing the surviving prisoners of the camps. -
Diary found
Anne's Diary is found -
Nuremberg trials
The allies and the International Community put a number of Germans on trial for War Crimes, Crimes Against Peace, and Crimes Against Humanity.