Book Thief Timeline

  • Hitler went to prison

    Hitler went to prison
    Hitler was sentenced to 5 years of prison where he wrote his book, Mein Kampf, where he gained a lot of political support. He only spent 9 months in jail however, where he then invaded Poland after he was released.
  • Communism

    Communism
    Communism is the elimination of Social Class. Hitler was opposed to this because he believed in solo domination and believed that Communists were to blame for the Reichstag Fire.
  • German Book Burning

    German Book Burning
    German kids stated the way for the German Revolution by burning books with "un-German" ideas
  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws
    Nuremberg laws were created to deprive German Jews of their citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich
  • Jessie Owens

    Jessie Owens
    Jessie Owens was a athlete who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He won 4 gold medals and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976 by President Ford
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    A 17 year old Jew shot and killed a member of the German Embassy Staff which caused his family and 15,000 other Jews to be expelled from Germany and transported to Poland.
  • Ghettos

    Ghettos
    Jews living in land conquered by Hitler would be transported to Ghettos, housing with bad living conditions that separated themselves from non-Jews.
  • Concentration Camps

    Concentration Camps
    Jewish families were sent to concentration camps and extermination camps where they would either do hard labor or be killed.
  • Nazi Expansion

    Nazi Expansion
    Physicians joined the Nazi party, Hitler Youth was created, League of German Girls was created.
  • Holocaust Meaning

    Holocaust Meaning
    Holocaust: A sacrifice burned by fire