During the late 1920s and early 1930s, the virulently anti-Semitic National German Socialist Workers Party (Nazi Party) led by Adolf Hitler became Germany's leading political force, winning control of the government in 1933. But she was born on the eve of dramatic changes in German society that would soon disrupt her family's happy, tranquil life as well as the lives of all other German Jews.ĭue in large part to the harsh sanctions imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I, the German economy struggled terribly in the 1920s. The Franks were a typical upper-middle-class, German-Jewish family living in a quiet, religiously diverse neighborhood near the outskirts of Frankfurt. Anne Frank at school in 1940 Photo: Unknown photographer Collectie Anne Frank Stichting Amsterdam (Website Anne Frank Stichting, Amsterdam), via Wikimedia CommonsĪnne was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany.
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