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.