1. Short Story For sale, baby carriage. Never used.
From Terse Tales of the Town, written in 1906

2. Building Background

3. Building Background to “The Diary of Anne Frank”
Star of David (Jewish Symbol)
Building Background to “The Diary of Anne Frank” P E A C P E A C
WORLD WAR II:
Swastika
(Nazi Symbol)

4. Who Was Involved?
WWII was fought between the AXIS POWERS and the ALLIED POWERS. At one point more than 70 nations were involved in the war!
The major Axis Powers were made up of Germany, Italy, and Japan. These three countries were considered enemies of the world. The major Allied Powers were made up of The USA, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, France, and The Republic of China
Flag of Germany

5. The Axis Powers
The main goal of the Axis Powers was to dominate as much of the world as possible.
Today we are going to focus mostly on Germany during this time.
We are going to look at the Nazi Government in Germany, Hitler (Germany’s leader at the time), and the genocide of the Jewish people (AKA The Holocaust).

6. Germany Before The War
In the early 1930s, Germany was going through a terrible Economic Depression. Many people lost their jobs and the country was becoming very poor. Germans lost faith in their government, so they quickly elected the Nazis into power because they promised the people great economic opportunities.
In 1933, six years before WWII officially began, Germany was governed by the Nazi party (National Socialist German Worker’s Party).
The party was formed in A nationalist party like this one, is one that strongly believes that the country is the single most important principle above all else.
In this belief system, no matter how unfair an idea might seem to people, if it is considered to serve the country itself, then it is accepted by the government.

7. Nazi Government
The Nazis planned to assert FULL control over the people of Germany.
Over the next many years, Nazis gained big power by convincing the people of Germany that Communists were trying to take over. Nazis also made the people very dependent on them because of the Economic Depression.
Once the Nazis established themselves, they were able to swiftly get rid of those that opposed them by arresting them, or in some cases, torturing and killing them.

8. The Rise of Hitler
Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany during World War II, was an influential member of the German government before he became their leader.
In 1934, president Hindenburg died. Soon afterwards, Hitler was made the country’s new president. He gave himself the new title, fuhrer, which means “leader” in German.

9. Hitler
Hitler’s vision of Germany consisted of a country whose people were all of the same race. He wanted Germany to consist only of Aryans (White Christian Germans). He believed the Aryan race was the master race and all other people were inferior, and not worthy of living in the world.
Hitler was a charismatic man, and a brilliant speaker filled with big ideas for the wealth and success of the German people. He was very powerful and persuasive. Huge crowds would gather to listen to him speak. Watch and listen as he addresses the German nation shortly before being appointed Germany’s new leader.

10. Hitler and Nazis
Hitler began his process of creating a master race by having his Nazi Party begin killing those considered “impure.”
He developed a sophisticated propaganda machine to portray Jews as evil, inferior and unpatriotic.
He targeted groups such as Gypsies, disabled and sick people, communists, and individuals opposed to the Nazi regime.
These groups were used as a “scapegoat,” in other words, they were weaker groups that Germans blamed for their problems so that the people would feel better.

11. Anne Frank
When we meet the Frank family, they are in hiding because of the following reasons:
Jews have been stripped of their citizenship
Nazis have forced the closing down of Jewish businesses
Jews must hand over driver’s license and other identification cards
Jews are forced to wear the Star of David to identify themselves
Jews are forced out of their homes and into ghettos
Jews are eventually brought to concentration camps for mass extermination.
World War II has started

12. The Jewish People
Throughout the 1900s, millions of Jews lived throughout Europe, North America, and across the Middle East.
This may seem like a large group of people, but in reality, they represented less than 1% of the world’s population.
Anne Frank, our story’s main character, was a Jewish girl born in Germany. Soon after Hitler and the Nazi’s took full control of the country, she and part of her family fled to Holland in hopes of escaping Jewish persecution.
Today, Jews continue to live all across the world. Their home country is called Israel, located in the Middle East.
Flag of Israel 

13. The Holocaust
The Holocaust is the name given to the genocide of minority groups throughout Europe during WWII. From , approximately six million Jews were killed by members of the Nazi party.
Jews were not only killed in Germany. Jews were also targeted in other neighboring countries such as Russia, Poland, Holland and Hungary.

14. How Did the Nazis do it?
Before the Nazis began rounding up Jews, they set up concentration camps and death camps in some of these countries.
A concentration camp is a huge area of land where Jews were held. It is basically a prison camp where Jews did work and were eventually tortured and killed by Nazis. From the outside, concentration camps simply looked like a large landscape designed for people to work in. In reality, they were the equivalent of a death camp.
In 1941, Jews were rounded up by Nazis across Europe, put on trains, and sent off to these camps. The Jews did not want to leave their homes, but they had no idea they were being sent off to die.

16. Concentration Camps Jews were killed in many different ways.
The Nazis tried to keep it a secret that Jews were really there to die.
At the end of a long work day, many Jews were sent off to “shower” in a small building, which was actually a gas chamber designed to large groups of people.
More than two million were gunned down beside mass graves.
Others were worked to death, or simply starved to death.

17. Photographs
Jews were packed into these small bunk beds to sleep.

18. Horrors of the Holocaust
A starved child of The Holocaust

19. Gas Chamber
One of the many gas chambers used to put large groups of Jews to death.

20. Iconic Picture
Famous photograph of a group of Jews being held up by a Nazi Officer