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Annelies (Anne) Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany.
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The Chancellor of Germany is elected. This person is Adolf Hitler.
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Near Munich, Germany, the first concentration camp is opened.
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Anne and her family move to Holland to avoid the persecution of Jews in Germany.
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World War 2 begins when Germany invades Poland, and Britian and France declare war against Germany.
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France, Belgium, and the Netherlands are invaded by Germany.
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Anne gets a diary as a gift for her 13th birthday.
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Anne's sister Margot gets a letter from the Nazi's telling her and her family to go back to Germany to work in a camp. The next day, in the secret annex above Anne's father's office, the Frank family go to hide.
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After receiving an anonymous tip, the Nazi's raid the annex, and all occupying it are sent to camps.
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Anne and Margot are switched from Auschwitz-Birkenau to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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Both Anne and Margot die from typhus. Their deaths are a few days apart, with Margot passing away first.
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Bergen-Belsen camp is raided by Brtish troops.
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As Soviet troops close in on Hitler's bunker located in Berlin, he commits suicide. Only 8 days after his death, Germany surrenders, which marks the end of World War 2 in Europe. The only one from the Frank family to come out of the war alive is Anne's father Otto. A woman named Miep who helped hide the Frank family had saved Anne's diary. She then returned it to Otto, unread.
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Anne's diary, which she kept during the war, is first publsihed in Dutch. Today, her diary is one of the World's most popular books and has been translated into 50 languages.
