Holocaust Unit

By holmril
  • Treaty of Versailles

    The Treaty of Versailles Germany had to lose land, lose military, and had to pay back money to the Winners. Germany's Army got reduced a lot.
  • Hyper Inflation

    The prices raised way to much to quick after WW1
    The price of 2 lb bread was 2.37 Marks in 1920
    The price of 2 lb bread was 3.90 Marks in 1921
    The price of 2 lb bread was 163.15 Marks in 1922
    250 Marks 1923
    474 Marks 1923
    3,465 Marks 1923
    69,000 Marks 1923
    1.512 Marks1923
    1.743 Marks 1923
    201 Billion Marks 1923
    399 Billion Marks 1923
    Prices rising very very very very very very very rapidly
  • Beer Hall Putsch

    Hitler and some other Nazis went out and were rioting in the streets and they were going to try and take over the Government but were met by Military and Hitler was arrested
  • Hitler On Trial

    Hitler gets arrested and could face the death penalty and uses the trial to Blame the Jews for all of Germany problems
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    Weimar Republic

    The President was a popular war hero name Hindenburg but his health began to fail him in the early 1930's
  • Anne Frank is Born

  • Watershed Year

    Hitler is named Chancellor. The night of the long knives was when Hitler eliminated the other Nazi leaders so he could gain all the power. Hitler is happy and he has an official title
  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler was a psychotic person that was a great speaker and could talk for hours. Hitler wanted to kill everyone except the Aryans who to him were the pure race. Hitler gained power from destroying everyone who stood in his way. Hitler became feared so much that everyone obeyed. Hitler successfully killed approximate 6 Million Jews,
  • Reichstag Fire

    Hitler blames the Communists for starting the fire. But Hitler was the one who burned the Reichstag
  • Enabling Act

    Hitler goes into Hindenburg office and gains decision making problems. A few months later the Nazis eliminated all of the other political parties. The Enabling Act allowed Hitler to kill his rivals. Hitler boycotts all of the Jewish businesses.
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    Holocaust

    The Holocaust was when Hitler wanted to kill all of the Jews because he believed that the only pure race was Aryan and took all of the Jews and put them into Concentration camps
  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nazis needed a way to know who is Jewish so they could discriminate them. If you had 3 or more Jewish grandparents the Nazis saw them as Jewish.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht is also known as the "Night of The Broken Glass" The government organized an event where people would go out and break all of the Jewish Mosques and burn down there houses. and destroy all of there property
  • Euthanasia

    Systematic killing of those Germans whom the Nazis deemed "unworthy of life" because of mental illness or physical disability. Over 80,000 people will be Euthanized
  • Ghettos

    The Nazis walled off citys and packed them full of Jews so it would be easier to round them up and kill them
  • Germany Invades Poland and Starts World War 2

    Germany invaded Poland to take back the Land that Germany lost in the Treaty of Versailles. When Hitler took Poland 3 Million Jews lived in Poland. 3 Million Jews fell under Hitlers control
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    World War 2

    World War 2 was the most brutal war that happened between the U.S,Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain,France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, Soviet Union, China
  • First Death Camp

    Vans with small gas chambers in the back are used. The vans could only fit 12 or so people.
  • Wannsee Conference

    Nazi Leaders approve the "Final Solution" or plan to exterminate all the Jews
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    Einsatzgruppen

    Mobile Killing Squad. They would round up Jews and shoot them. This was the start of the Genocide. 33,000 Jews were killed in just 2 days
  • Anne Franks Family Goes Into Hiding

    Anne Franks family went into hiding because they did not want to die in the Concentration Camps, Anne Frank went into hiding with the Van Daans. They were hiding in Mr Franks room above his office in a secret room blocked by a bookshelf
  • Mr. Dussel moves into the secret Annex

    Mr Dussel is a young dentist who is usually grumpy. Mr Dussel moves into the Annex and is taking it for granted because he is being mean to Anne about her being loud at night.
  • Nazis start using Zyklon B

    The Nazis are using Zyklon B and it is more efficient. The Nazis dump the Zyklon B into the underground gas chambers.
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    Camp Uprising

    The Jews uprised and took the Guards weapons and had a fight with the guards. Some Jews blew up the Crematorium
  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Residents smuggled weapons in. Uprising lasted for about a month. SS troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising ended.
  • Partisans

    Guerrilla groups fighting against the Nazi soldiers
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    Death Marches

    Allies advancing toward death camps, Nazis evacuate prisoners march them into Germany to avoid capture, Brutal treatment and harsh conditions along the way.
  • Secret Annex is Discovered and Captured by The Nazis

    The Secret Annex is seized by the Nazis. The thief that had broken into the Business below the Annex told the Nazis that there was some people hiding upstairs.
  • Anne Frank Dies

    Anne Frank dies in Bergen Belsen Death Camp from Typhus
  • Displaced Person Camps

    Areas for former prisoners to stay while searching for family and a permanent place to live.
  • Emigration

    The Jews homes were destroyed. They didn't want to have to remember all of the deaths. The Jews Emigrated to Israel because they thought it was the promised land. The Jews are successful in creating there own country for Jews in Israel
  • Hitler finally kills himself

    Hitler commits suicide instead of facing his mistakes of killing almost all of the Jews. Instead took the cowards way out.
  • LIBERATION

    Camps that are occupied by the Nazis are freed by the ally forces
  • Anne Franks Death Is Confirmed to Otto Frank

    Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz with her mother and sister. Anne had gotten Scabies because she was close to the door that led outside of her barracks. Anne was sent to Bergen Belsen and had died of Typhus there
  • Mr Frank Returns to The Annex and Finds Annes Diary

    Mr Frank comes up the stairs and looks around the annex then he finds a glove and breaks down crying. Miep comes up into the annex and ask him what wrong and tries to comfort him then Mr Frank says he is going to leave Amsterdam. Miep says dont leave because there are notes and letters and Mr Frank says burn it all then Miep pulls out Anne's old diary and he begins to read it and as he reads it Annes voice gets louder. The book is popular because many kids can relate to the book on how they felt
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    Nuremberg Trials

    The Allies and the International Community put a number of Germans on trials for War Crimes, Crimes Against peace and crimes again Humanity