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.