Holocaust unit

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  • Months and days don't really matter.

    June 5 is the place holder mouth and day.

  • German were excited for war

  • World war 1 ends

  • Treaty of Versailes

    Germany had to give money to winners, lose land, and lose military. People believed that Hitler was going to be there hero.
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    Hipper inflation

    Cost of a Ib loaf of bread.
    December 1920- 2.37 marks
    December 1921- 3.90 marks
    December 1922- 163.15. 15 mark
    January 1923- 250 marks
    April 1923-474 marks
    July 1923 -3,465 marks
    August 1923- 69,000
    September 1923- 1.512 million marks
    October 1923- 1.743 billion marks
    November 1923- 201 billion marks
    December 1923- 399 billion marks.

  • Beer Hall Putsch

    Hitler attempts to overthrow the German government.

  • Hitler on Trial

    Uses trial to give huge speech further blaming Jews for problems of Germany.
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    Republic goverment

    The President was a popular war hero named Hindenburg.
    But his health began to fail him in early 1930s.

  • Anne Frank Born

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.

    He believed that the Aryan race was the best race. He rose to power tatickly.
    Eliminate political rivals to be head of Nazis.
    Rising popularity of Nazis forces Hindenburg to give him some power.

  • Reichstog Fire.

    Hitler blames Communists for fire.

  • Enabling Act

    Basically gives power of decision making to Hitler.
    Within a few months, all other political parties besides the Nazis were eliminated.
    This allowed Hitler to get rid of all his rivals
    At this time, we see an official boycott of Jewish business as well.
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    Holocaust

    It is a event that Hitler made to kill Jews.

  • Kristalnacht

    It was a fight to kill Jews.

  • Ghettos

    Nazis begin rounding up millions of Jews and confining them to
    Ghettos.
    Largest Ghettos were in cities like Warsaw or Lodz in Poland.
    Food was rationed and any extra goods needed to be SMUGGLED in.
    Meat and diary items are extremely hard to come by.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nazis needed a way to identify Jews so they could discriminate them.
    Nuremberg Laws defined people with 3 or 4 Jewish grandparents as "Jewish" and 1 or 2 as "Mixed Blood".
    Denied citizenship.
    Forebode Jews from marrying non-Jews.
    Cannot fly national flag.
    Punishments include fines, imprisonment, and hard labor.
    (Eventually many mare discrimination laws would be put in place building on this one).

  • Euthanasia Program Begins

    Euthanasia- systematic killing of those Germans whom the Nazis deemed "unworthy of life" because of mental illness or physical disability.
    Eventually, 80,000 people with disabilities will be killed.
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    World War II (WWII)

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Which has 3 million Jews in its population.
    World War II begins.

  • First "Death Camp" opens at Chelmno (in Central Poland)

    Vans with small gas chambers in the rear are used.

  • Wannsee Conference

    Nazi Leaders approve the "FINAL SOLUTION" or plan to EXTERMINATE THE JEWS, or the HOLOCAUST.
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    Einsatzgruppen- Mobile killing squads.

    As the army advanced into the Soviet Union, these groups would round up Jews from the newly occupied areas and kill them... usually by shooting.

  • Anne Frank family goes to hiding

    They were hiding because of the Nazis. They also had another family which was called VD. The building they were hiding is was called the Annex.

  • Mr. Dussel moves into the Secret Annex.

    People like Mr. Van Dann hated more people in the Annex.
    People like Mr. Frank loved more people in the Annex.

  • Start of Death Camps

    Reasons why they moved to Death Camps.
    Waste of ammo.
    Waste of use of troops.
    Story is not holding up any more.
    Mental and emotional brake down for troops killing Jews.

  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Residents smuggled weapons in.
    Uprising lasted for about a month.
    S.S. troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising ended.
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    Prisoners fought back at death camps

    Treblinka- Aug. 1943
    Sobibor- Oct. 1943
    Prisoners fight back agents the Nazis

  • Auschwitz-Birkenau.

    Prisoners fighting back agents the Nazis.
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    Death Marchies

    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 discovered and capture by the Nazis

    They thought the car was not the Nazis, put the Allies or nice people.

  • Hitler commits suicide.

    Rather than face capture by the Soviet Red Army.
    Germany surrenders within a week.
    War ended

  • Liberation of Concentration camps.

    The Americans destroyed the concentration camps. The Jews had challenges because of diseases, the flash backs of the Holocaust, and there family being killed.

  • Free at last

    Camps throughout Europe are liberated by Allied forces.
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    What happened to the survivors

    Displaced Persons Camps- Areas for former prisoners to stay while searching for family and a permanent place to live.

  • Anne's death is confirmed to Otto Frank

  • Mr. Frank returns to the Annex and finds Anne's Diary

    Mr. Frank went in the Annex and found her diary. It is meaningful for other people because it tells the life of Anne Frank and her story.
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    Nuremberg Trials

    The Allies and the International Community put a number of Germans on the trail for War Crimes, Crimes Against Peace, and Crimes Against Humanity.