Transcript Fallen Innocence:

Fallen Innocence:
Night Brings a Separate Peace
1933
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party take control of
Germany.
Dachau, the first concentration camp is
established.
There are 9 million Jews in Europe.
1936
"The AAU shouts against the
cruelties of the other nations and
the brutalities in foreign climates,
but conveniently forgets the things
that sit on its own doorstep."
The Philadelphia Tribune, December
19, 1935
Who is Jesse Owens?
1939
•Germany invades Poland;
WWII begins.
•Jews are forced to wear the
Star of David.
1940
Auschwitz and the
first ghetto
established in
Poland.
December 7, 1941
D-DAY
“After all, there’s a war on. It’s not much of a
sacrifice, when you think of people starving and
being bombed and all the other things. (Gene 104)”
Declaration of War
President Roosevelt's
Address to the Nation
Read along while the
president addresses the
nation. (Rhetoric)
The man behind the speech.
“Do you really think the United States of
America is in a state of war with Nazi
Germany and Imperial Japan? (Finny
115)”
Meet the Author
Excerpt from his Autobiography
1944, as a teenager he and his
family were taken to Auschwitz
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