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Treaty of Versailles signed WWI is over
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The Holocaust
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Hitler arrested and imprisoned
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Hitler begins to write Mein Kampf
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Anne Frank Birth
Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born diarist and writer. She is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. -
Hitler comes to power
President Paul von Hindenburg had appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues. -
Fire destroys Reichstag building
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Boycott of Jewish businesses
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First anti-Jewish laws passed by Reichstag
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Nuremberg Laws strip Jews of rights as citizens
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Olympic games held in Berlin; anti-Jewish activity halted
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Hitler declares Treaty of Versailles void
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Kristallnacht
A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass. -
Germany invades Poland
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France, Britain declares war on Germany
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Beginning of evacuation of Jews from Germany
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Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
Germany declares war on United States
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Berlin decides "Final Solution" to the "Jewish problem"
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The Franks go into hiding
From Monday July 6, 1942 the Frank family goes into hiding. The hiding place is not quite ready yet at that time. Everywhere there are still things in boxes. The people in hiding immediately go to work to make curtains so the neighbors can not see them from outside. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front. -
The Franks are found
On a warm August day in 1944, the thing everyone has been afraid of for so long finally happens: they’re discovered and arrested. -
Hitler injured in assassination attempt by Klaus von Stauffenberg
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Anne dies
In August 1944, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. In 1945, February or March, they die. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. is wife Eva (née Braun) committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. -
The War in Europe Ends (VE day)
On this day in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. -
Nne top Nazis hanged in Nuremberg prison
