Book Thief Background
Transcript: The Book Thief Background 1933-1935 1944-1946 1933-1938 1982 The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. It ended in 1945 when Allied powers defeated the Nazis. Between 1933 and 1945, more than 11 million men, women, and children were murdered in the Holocaust. Approximately six million of these were Jews. 1.1 million children died during the holocaust (1933-1945) People were held in constitutional camps in 1933-1938 March 16, 1935- Germany introduces military conscription 1933-1935 1991 Jewish people were excluded from public life on September 15th, 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws were issued. December 2, 1936: Olympics held in Finland are canceled. Kristallnacht occurred on November 9th and 10th, 1938. Nazis pillaged, burned synagogues, broke windows of Jewish-owned businesses, and attacked Jewish people in Austria and Germany. On November 11, 1938, Germany enacted the “Regulations Against Jews’ Possession of Weapons,” which made it illegal for Jews to carry firearms or other weapons. March 28, 1939: spanish civil war ends 1935-1939 1939-1941 1939-1941 September 4, 1939: Japan, engaged in war with China, declares its neutrality in the European war. September 10, 1939: Canada declares war on Germany The first instance of mass murder by gas under Hitler’s rule occurred on November 15, 1939 April 9th, 1940- Germany invaded Denmark and Norway The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 1941-1944 1941-1945 Four Japanese aircraft carriers and a cruiser were sunk and 250 aircraft destroyed in the Battle of Midway, 4-7 June 1942 Between July 1942 and January 1943 the Japanese were driven from Guadalcanal and eastern Papua New Guinea Singapore was surrendered to the Japanese on 15 February 1942. The first kamikaze attacks occurred on 25 October 1944 -Death Camps 1941-1945 1944-1946 Holocaust Trials 1945-1946. June 22, 1941- Germany invaded the soviet union September 28-29, 1941 - 33,000 jews were killed in just two days The massacre of the jews was publicly denounced by the western allies on December 17, 1942 On July 23, 1944, they liberated Majdanek. Most of the world initially refused to believe the Soviet reports of the horrors they found there.”
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