Holocaust Unit

  • Treaty of Versalies

    Germany surrenders to Allies, lose WW1 and are forced to sign unfavorable Treaty of Versalies. Germany had to pay millions of dollars to countries and had to give up land and give up military.
  • Hyperinflation

    prices rise so fast it out of control. price of bread in germany
  • beerhall putsch

    Hitler attempts to overthrow german government
  • Hitler's Trial

    Adolf Hitler and nine associates stood trial in a Munich courtroom. The charge was treason — they were accused of trying to overthrow the German republic
  • Anne Frank is born

    Anne Frank is born
  • Hitler is named chancellor

    -eliminate political rivals to be head of Nazis
    -rising popularity of Nazis forces Hindenburg to give him some power.
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    Holocaust

    a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews and 11 million people
  • Reichstag Fire

    hitler blames communists for fire
  • Enabling Act

    basically gave power of decision making to hitler. Within a few months all other political parties besides the Nazis were eliminated.
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    Camp Rebellions

  • Kristallnacht

    , was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and German civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening.[
  • Euthanasia Program

    Systematically killing people deemed "unworthy to life" due to physical disability or mental illness
  • Ghettos

    Nazis begin rounding up millions of Jews and confining them to Ghettos.
  • Wannsee Confrence

    Nazi Leaders approve the "FINAL SOLUTION" or plan to kill the jews.
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    Einsatzgruppen

    Army advanced into the soviet union these groups would round up Jews from newly occupied areas and kill them usually by shooting. Largest mass killing by Einsatzgruppen on record was at Babi Yar in Ukraine.
  • Anne Frank and family went into hiding

    Anne Frank's family went into hiding in an attic apartment behind Otto Frank's business because Margot Frank received a letter ordering her to report to a work camp in Germany
  • Anne Frank’s family goes into hiding

  • Mr. Dussel moves in the annex

  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    -Residents smuggled weapons in.
    -Uprising lasted for about a month
    -SS troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising ended
  • Nazis moved away from the Einsatzgruppen and planned to use death camps

    It becomes harder to round people up because other Jews suspect somethings going on. Germany figured they were wasting bullets they could be using in the war. Soldiers that had been killing jews were emotionally scarred.
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    Death Marches

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

    camps throughout Europe are liberated by Allied forces
  • Hitler kills himself

  • Mr. Franks returns to the annex and finds Anne's diary

    He came there sick and exhausted of all the work and trouble they were through. He was really sad as well noticing that all his family has probably died or he lost them. He still had his friend though and he had that friend to help him with his anxiety, depression and sickness.
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    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.