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Anne Frank is born in Frankfurt, Germany
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The National Socialist German workers' (Nazi) party begins its rise to power. The Nazis proclaim the superority of the German "master race" and blame jews for the German defeat in World War I and for the troubled Economy.
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The Franks decide to leave Germany to escape the Nazi persecution. While Mr. Frank looks for a new home in amsterdam, the Netherlands, the rest of the family stays with relatives in Aachen, Germany.
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The Nazi party leader, Adolf Hitler, becomes chancellor (Head Government) of Germany.
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The Nazis pass their first anti-jewish law, banning the public employment of jews.
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The First concentration camp is established by the Nazis, at Dachau, Germany.
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Anne with her father at Miep Santrouschitz and Jan Gies's wedding
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The Nuremburg Laws are passed, denying Jews German Citizenship and forbidding marriage between Jews and Non-Jews.
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Germany and Italy form an alliance (The axis)
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The Van Pels family (Called Van Dana’s in Anne’s Diary)Flee Germany for the Netherlands.
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The German army invades and annexes Austria
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The Munich Agreement, granting Germany the right to annex parts of Czechoslovakia, it drafted and signed by representative of France, Great Britain, Italy, and Germany.
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Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass). Led by the SS, the Nazi special police, Germans beat and killed Jews, Loot Jewish stores, and burned synagogues
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Fritz Pfeffer (Calles Albert Düsseldorf in Anne’s Diary) Flees Germany for the Netherlands.
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Germany invades and occupies most of Czechoslovakia
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Germany invades Poland; World War II begins. France and Great Britain declare war on Germany two days later.
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Germany invades Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
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Japan joins the Axis
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Germany invades the Soviet Union.
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The United States enters the war on the side of the Allied nations (including Great Britain, the Souviet Union, and other countries) after Japan attacks the U.S. at Pearl Harbor.
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The "Final Solution" is secretly announced at a conference of Nazi officials: Europe's Jews are to be "exterminated," or murdered. Construction of death camps begins in Poland. Millions of people (Jews and Non-Jews) will die in those camps
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Anne receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday
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The Franks go into hiding after Margot receives an order to appear for deportation to a labor camp in Germany. The Van Pels family joins them one week later.
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Fritz Pfeffer becomes the eighth occupant of the Secret Annex.
