Holocaust Unit

By Swinsum
  • Treaty of versaillies

    One of the most important treaties in ww1, It was to end ww1 between the Germans and Allied powers, Germany lost money, land, give away military, etc.
  • Hyper Inflation

    Prices rise so fast it gets out of control
    Price of bread in germany
  • Hitler bursts into scene

    1923 Beerhall Pustch: Hitler attempts to overthrow the German government
  • Hitler on Trial

    Uses trial to give huge speech further blaming Jews for problems of Germany
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    Republic

    The president was popular war hero named Hindenburg
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    wiener republic

  • Anne Frank is Born

    Anne Frank is Born
  • Hitler as Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler was a German Nazi who hated Jews and wanted them gone, because Germany was in need of help, they'd be easily brainwashed by someone, Hitler gained much power by doing everything slowly such as slowly taking away Jew rights -eliminate political rivals to be head of nazis
    -rising popularity of Nazi forces Hindenburg to give him some power
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    Holocaust

    Holocaust was after ww1, One of the most embarrassing times in history, over 6 million Jews died, 1.5 million of them being children, and 5 million non Jewish people died, The cause of it all was Hitler, after the desperate needs of Germany
  • Reichstag Fire

    Hitler balms communists for fire
  • Enabling Act of March 1933

    Basically gives power of decision making to 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
  • Krsistallnacht

    The time of the Holocaust against the violence of the Jews, "Night of Broken Glass" is the night where 7000 Jewish businesses were destroyed.
  • Nazis round up Jews

    Nazis began rounding up millions of Jews and confining them to Ghettos, Ghettos are run down places that are not clean, Largest Ghettos were in Cities such as Warsaw or Lodz in Poland.
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    World war 2

  • Euthanasia

    systematically killing those deemed ünworthy of life due to physical disability or mental illness
    -Eventually, 80,000 people with abilities will be killed
  • G e r m a n y I n v a d e s P o l a n d

  • Wansee conference

  • Wansee Conference

    -Nazi leaders apporve the ¨FINAL SOLUTION¨ or plan to EXTERMINATE THE JEWS
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    Einsatzgruppen

    As the army advanced into the Soviet Union, these groups would round up Jews from the newly occupied areas and ill them...usually by shooting.....
  • Anne frank's family goes into hiding

    Anne frank's family goes into hiding
    Anne frank and her family goes into hiding to hide from the Nazis and not get caught, they were in the attic of her father business for almost 2 years, in the attic it's Anne frank and her family and the Van Daan family, they have the help of two other people so they don't get caught
  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    -Residents smuggled weapons in
    -Uprising lasted for about a month
    -SS troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising dead
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    Camp Rebellion

    Prisoners that took part of the rebellion across camps
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    Death Marxhes

    -Allies advancing toward death camps
    -Nazis evacuate prisoners, march them into Germany to avoid capture
    -Brutal treatment and harsh conditions along the way
  • Liberation of Concentration camps

    Freeing of the Jews in concentration camps, soviet soldiers where the first to do it, freeing the many Jews, in Auschwitz they found hundreds of sick and exhausted Jews
  • Nuremberg laws

    -Denied Citizenship
    -Forbade Jews from marrying non-Jews
    -Cannot fly national flag
    -Punishments included fines, imprisonment and hard labor
  • Free at Last

    Camps throughout Europe are liberated by Allied forces
  • The War Ends

    Hitler commits suicide rather than face capture by the SOviet Red Army Germany surrenders within a week
  • Mr frank returns to the annex and finds Anne Franks diary

    Mr frank finds the diary in the annex which was written by Anne frank her diary is so important and meaningful because it describes a life of someone who had to go through the Holocaust.
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    Nuremberg Trials

    International community put a number of Germans on trial for War Crimes, Crimes against peace and crimes against humanity
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    What happened to the survivors?

    -Displaced in Persons Camps- Areas for former prisoners to stay while searching fora family and a permanent place to live
  • Germany Invades Poland

    The start of world war 2, Germany invades Poland, Germany wanted more land to spread their ¨perfect¨ race all around Europe, and they wanted all the land they lost from ww1, and they knew Poland was easy to invade with the flat lands and the Deustch speakers
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau

    Members of the sonderkommando working in the Crematorium fought SS guards killing over 70, but all 250 as well as 200 others were killed in response