Transcript Guns not butter

How do you successfully answer
source questions?
• Key components of source question:
• Question – Make sure you fully understand the question.
– If it asks how far then explain what it shows and then the limitations
– If it asks why then set it in the context of what you know
– If it asks explain then quote useful bits of the source to back up your
knowledge
– If it asks about usefulness then make sure say what is useful and then what is
omitted. If you only do half, you can only score half!
• Provenance – Who Where When: How does this influence your
•
interpretation of the source?
Content – How does the meaning and message of the source answer the
question?
– Remember to quote aspects or short phrases from the source to back up your
argument
• Context – What background information helps explain the source and aids
answering the question?
"Work and Food"
From November
1932 Reichstag
election.
How far does this
poster show that
Nazi propaganda
worked?
Anti-Fascist
Imagery: "Hurrah,
the Butter is
Gone!" (Workers’
Illustrated
Newspaper)
(December 19,
1935)
Does this
piece of antiNazi
propaganda
show that
their
economic
policy was not
successful?
Magda
Goebbels at
Home with
her Children
(1938)
Why did
the
Nazis
publish
this
image in
1938?