Holocaust

Holocaust Unit

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    The Treaty of Versailles was the end of World War 1. It had ended the state between Germany and Allied Powers. Land was lost, military also. Germany had to pay back money to winners as well.
  • Hitler Bursts Onto The Scene

    Hitler Bursts Onto The Scene
    Hitler attempts to overthrow the German government.
  • Hyperinflation

    Hyperinflation
    The prices of the German's economy rose so fast. That then got out of control.
    The price of bread...
    December 1920 - 2.37 marks
    December 1922 - 163.15 marks
  • The Beerhall Putch

    Attempted to over through the government
  • Anne Frank is Born

    Anne Frank is Born
  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler Becomes  Chancellor of Germany
    Hitler was a man that became leader of Germany. He was a very cruel, but smart man, that wouldn't let anything stop him from what he was doing. He gained his power by making the people of the country believe what he was saying, and doing.
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    Holocaust

    The Holocaust is an event that had happened in 1933 and lasted to 1945. The event was when Hitler, the leader of the group, and his army on British men captured Jews and tortured them.
  • Enabling Act

    Enabling Act
    Power is given of decision making to Hitler
  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws
    Nazis needed a way to identify Jews. Nuremberg Laws defined people with 3 or 4 Jewish Grandparents as "Jewish" and 1 or 2 as "mixed blood."
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    The Kristallnacht is the night of broken glass. Hitler told the Germans to break and burn all things within the area that had belonged to Jews.
  • World War II Begins

    World War II Begins
    Germany Invades Poland
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    World War II

  • Euthanasia Program

    Euthanasia Program
    A systematically killing people deemed "Unworthy of life" due to physical disability or mental illness.
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference
    Nazi Leaders approve the "FINAL SOLUTION" or plan to EXTERMINATE THE JEWS.
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    Einsatzgruppen

    Mobile Killing Squad or "Action Kommandos"
  • Einsatzgruppen

    Round up Jews and kill them
  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
    Residents smuggled weapons in. Uprising lasted fro about a month. SS troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising ended.
  • Camp Rebellions

    Camp Rebellions
    After stealing weapons from guards, prisoners tried to escape. Most were killed, but a few dozen made it out and survived the war.
  • Anne Frank’s family goes into hiding

    Anne Frank’s family goes into hiding
    Anne frank went into hiding because the Nazis where capturing all of the Jews. They went into hiding with another family, in an addict of a building.
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau

    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.
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    Death Marches

    Allies advancing toward death cams. Nazi evacuate prisoners, march them into Germany to avoid capture. Brutal treatment and harsh conditions along the way.
  • Liberation of Concentration Camps

    Liberation of Concentration  Camps
    The liberation of concentration camps were the places that the Jews would go to after captured. If the Jews were healthy, they went to the camps, but if they were not, they were immediately killed.
  • Liberation

    Liberation
    Camps through Europe are liberated by allied forces.
  • Mr. Frank returns to the annex and finds Anne’s Diary

    Mr. Frank returns to the annex and finds Anne’s Diary
    When Mr. Franks came back to find Anne's diary, he saw that the room that they had been living in the time before, was trashed. Anne's diary was so meaningful and popular for so many people because it showed them what her life was for that time period.
  • Nuremberg Trials

    Nuremberg Trials
    happened after the war. International Community put a number of Germans on trial for War Crimes, Crimes Against Peace and Crimes Against Humanity.
  • D.P Camps

    The displaced person camps. Jews tried to find their families.
  • Ghettos

    Ghettos
    Nazis begin rounding up millions of Jews and confining them to Ghettos.
  • weimar Republic

    President: Pal von Hinderge