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DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL
Historical Context
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Nazi Germany
Anti-Semitism
World War II
Holocaust
German defeat
Reparations
Economy in
ruins
Civil unrest
GERMANY AFTER WWI
Germans remained
proud
They offered a solution
Created jobs
Rebuilt the military
Expanded territory
Offered some one to
blame
RISE OF THE NAZIS
Jews were blamed
Viewed as a different
race
Encouraged anti-
Semitism
Nuremburg Laws
Kristallnacht
The final solution
ANTI-SEMITISM
Germany invades
Poland
German army is
powerful
Concentration camps
Final solution
WWII
Bosnia• 200,000
Rwanda
• 800,000Armenia
• 1,500,000The Holocaust
• 6,000,000
GENOCIDE
When the Nazis came for the communists,I remained silent;I was not a communist.When they locked up the social democrats,I remained silent;I was not a social democrat.When they came for the trade unionists,I did not speak out;I was not a trade unionist.When they came for the Jews,I remained silent;I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,there was no one left to speak out.