Holocaust Unit

  • Treaty of Versailles

    No air force for Germany or special navy boats and only 100,000 soldiers. Redrew border line for Germany
  • Hyper inflation

    Hyper inflation
    Prices rise so fast it gets out of control. Price of bread in Germany
    December 1920-2.37 marks For loaf of bread
    December 1923-399 billion marks For loaf of bread
  • Beerhall Putsch

    Beerhall Putsch
    Hitler attempts to overthrow the government
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    Republic Style government

    The president was a popular war hero named Hindenburg. People started voting Nazis into offize
  • Hitler on trial

    Hitler on trial
    Uses trial to give huge speech further blaming Jews for problems in Germany
  • Anne Frank is born

    Anne Frank is born
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
    Adolf Hitler becomes official Chancellor of Germany.
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    Holocaust

    The holocaust of world war 2
  • Reichstag Fire

    Reichstag Fire
    Hitler blames communists for the fire
  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws
    Allows Nazis to know whos a Jew and who wasn't a Jew
    Denied citizenship
    Forbid Jews to marry non Jews
    Cannot fly national flag
  • Kristallnach

    Kristallnach
    Government burns down Jewish church
  • Euthanasia

    Euthanasia
    Kill them to put them out of their misery.
    Killed mental or physical disabilities patients
    They wanted their perfect race so they killed people with physical and mental disabilities
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    WWII

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland
    Poland had 3 million Jews
    Created ghettos to relocate Jews in
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference
    Nazi leaders get together and talk about Exterminating the Jews from Europe completely
  • Einsatzgruppen

    Einsatzgruppen
    Mobile killing squads that took Jews out in the middle of nowhere and shot them over a million Jews were killed like that.
  • Anne franks family goes into hidng

    Anne franks family goes into hidng
    Anne Frank went into hiding from the Germans because the Germans were looking to send all Jews to concentration camps and or sadly kill them.
  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
    Residents smuggle in weapons
    Uprising lasted for about a month
    SS troops arrested and deported residents after uprising ended
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    Treblinka Sabibor Auschwitz Birkenau

    After stealing weapons prisoners tried to escape
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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
  • Liberation of concentration camps

    Liberation of concentration camps
    The united states defeated the Nazi and liberated every Jew from liberation camps.
  • Free at last!

    Free at last!
    camps throughout Europe are liberated by allied forces
  • Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler commits suicide
    Hitler kills himself no one wants to continue the war.
  • War ended!!!

    War ended!!!
    War ends
  • Mr.Frank returns to the annex and finds Annes diary

    Mr.Frank returns to the annex and finds Annes diary
    It was heartbreaking for him to go back and remember his family not knowing what happened to them if they were alive or had been killed. Finding his daughters diary was very important because it could show people how difficult life was during the holocuast
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    Nuremberg Trials

    All the camp leaders are sentenced
  • After war for prisoners

    After war for prisoners
    Went to displaced camps to get fed well and reunited with their families if their families were still alive
  • What happened to the survivors?

    What happened to the survivors?
    They got put into camps. Areas for former prisoners to stay while searching for family and a permanent place to live.