Anne Frank in the world 1929-1945

The Frank family

Frankfurt am Main in the 1920s: a portrait of the city

Germany in the 1920s: political and economic crisis

Frankfurt's Jewish community

The Nazis' rise to power

Hitler in power

Democracy abolished

The Labor Movement disbanded

The labor service

The propaganda machine

The Anti-Jewish boycott

Law and justice

The church

The Nazi "Welfaire State"

The killing of the disabled

Population control and racial policies

Schools and universities - The youth movement

Art and culture

The German Army

The Jewish community in Germany, 1933-1940

Kristallnacht

Jewish refugees

International reactions

The Frank family in Amsterdam, 1933-1940

National Socialism in the Netherlands

The Jewish community in the Netherlands, 1940

May 1940: the occupation of the Netherlands

Early days of occupation

The first roundup

The February strike, 1941

Dutch collaboration.

Recruitment of SS volunteers

Anti-Jewish measures

Dutch resistance

Deportation begins

The Frank family goes into hiding

The noose tightens

Deportation continues

The final solution

June 1944: the tide turns in Europe

The last months of the Frank family

The winter of hunger

The liberation of the camps

The final liberation of the Netherlands

The end of the war in Europe

Anne Frank's diary

Anti-Semitism today and postwar Nazism

Racism and racial violence

Extreme Nationalism

Fighting prejudice.