1933The Nazi Party won the general election in Germany.
1938In March Hitler invaded Austria.
In September Italy, France and Great Britain agreed to give Germany control of a part of Czechoslovakia
1939In March Hitler invaded all of
Czechoslovakia
On 1 September Germany invaded Poland and began the Second World War
1940On 7 September the London Blitz bombings
began.
In the end the German invasion of Great Britain was not successful
1941On 7 December Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and declared
war on USA and Britain
On 8 September United States declared war on Japan and Germany
1942The battle of Stalingrad lasted from summer 1942 to
February 1943
1943Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met and
planned the invasion of Europe
1944The D-Day began on 6 June it was the biggest invasion in
history
The allies freed Paris
1945In January German soldiers were moving back
On 30 April Hitler killed himself in Berlin
On 8 May Germany surrendered
On 6 August the USA dropped an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and on 9 August dropped an atomic bomb over Nagasaki
On 14 Japan surrendered end the war ended
Hitler considered the Jews to be an inferior race and he believed that the Northern European people or Aryan race were superior
When the Nazi Party came into power were many restriction place for the Jews
They were no longer considered German citizens and therefore had no rights
Their business and homes were taken away from them
The ghettos was closed areas within cities.
More Jews were sent to concentration on camps and other were sent to extermination camps.
The biggest and most famous extermination camp was Auschwitz-Birkenau
In this camp died over one million people and in all holocaust were killed six million Jews
Anne Frank was born on 12 June 1929 in the German town of Frankfurt am Main.
In 1933 Anne and her family moved to the Netherlands
In July 1942 the family went to live in a secret hiding place
Anne wrote in her diary about this terrible time
In August 1944 the Nazis found the hiding place
Anne and Margot were sent to Bergen-Belsen and they died in March 1945
Miep Gies then gives Otto Ann’s diary and papers.
On 25 June 1947, 'The Secret Annex' was published. Many more editions, translations, a play and a film follow.
In 1960 the Anne Frank House became a museum. Otto Frank remains involved with the Anne Frank House and campaigns for human rights and respect until his death in 1980.