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Government
WomenStructure
Time period
Weimar
Government
Nazi
pre-War
Government
Nazi
Wartime
Government
FRG
Significant events / features of period
Change / Continuity
ForeignWomen
Policy and Priorities
Time period
Weimar
Government
Nazi
pre-War
Government
Nazi
Wartime
Government
FRG
Significant events / features of period
Change / Continuity
Opposition
to Government
Women
Time period
Weimar
Government
Nazi
pre-War
Government
Nazi
Wartime
Government
FRG
Significant events / features of period
Change / Continuity
Government
Control of Opposition
Women
Time period
Weimar
Government
Nazi
pre-War
Government
Nazi
Wartime
Government
FRG
Significant events / features of period
Change / Continuity
Economic
WomenPolicy
Time period
Weimar
Government
Nazi
pre-War
Government
Nazi
Wartime
Government
FRG
Significant events / features of period
Change / Continuity
Women
Women
Time period
Weimar
Government
Nazi
pre-War
Government
Nazi
Wartime
Government
FRG
Significant events / features of period
Change / Continuity
Ethnic
Minorities
Women
Time period
Weimar
Government
Nazi
pre-War
Government
Nazi
Wartime
Government
FRG
Significant events / features of period
Change / Continuity
Young
People
Women
Time period
Weimar
Government
Nazi
pre-War
Government
Nazi
Wartime
Government
FRG
Significant events / features of period
Change / Continuity
Culture
Women
Time period
Weimar
Government
Nazi
pre-War
Government
Nazi
Wartime
Government
FRG
Significant events / features of period
Change / Continuity
Living
Standards
Women
Time period
Weimar
Government
Nazi
pre-War
Government
Nazi
Wartime
Government
FRG
Significant events / features of period
Change / Continuity
Possible Essay Questions
(for the topics we have covered so far)
AS Level
Section A
Section B
Was the work of Gustav Stresemann the main
reason for the Weimar government’s ability to
overcome the challenges it faced between 1919
and 1929?
To what extent did women’s lives change during
the period 1918 - 45?
How far do you agree that political opposition to
the Weimar Republic was rooted in a hatred of
the Treaty of Versailles?
To what extent did education change during the
period 1918 - 45?
How far do you agree that Hitler’s rise to becoming
a dictator was achieved by legal means?
How far do you agree that Nazi propaganda was
responsible for attitudes towards ethnic
minorities in the years 1933 – 45?
Was the recovery of the German economy the
main reason for the survival of the Nazi regime in
the years 1933 – 1939?
To what extent did standards of living improve
during the period 1918 – 39?
Was the main reason for popular support for the
Nazis in the years 1933 – 1945 the party’s use of
propaganda? Explain your answer.
How far do you agree that anti-government
protest changed completely between 1918 and
1945?
Was public distrust of the Weimar government the
main reason for the collapse of democracy in
1933?
To what extent did the Nazi regime overturn the
Weimar education system?
Section A questions will ask for analysis and evaluation
of causation or consequence only.
The essay normally covers around a decade (this period
might be a little longer where it makes sense for the
question.)
Section B questions will ask for analysis and evaluation
of any concept focus, but not solely causation or
consequence*. The essay normally covers
approximately a third of the chronology.
*It could be change and continuity or significance.
To what extent were the Nazis successful in
solving the economic problems of the Weimar
republic?
How accurate is it to say that the system of
government in Nazi Germany in the years 1933 –
1939 was significantly different from that of the
Weimar Republic?
Germany and West Germany, 1918-1989
Wider Reading
Academic Writing
Fulbrook, M. A Concise History of Germany, Cambridge University Press (2004)
Hiden, J. The Weimar Republic, Seminar Staudies in History, Longman (1996)
Lee, S.J. The Weimar Republic, Question and Analysis in History, Routledge (2009)
Kitchen, M. A History of Modern Germany: 1800 to the Present, Wiley-Blackwell (2011)
Carr, W. A History of Germany 1815-1990, Hodder Arnold (1991)
Lee, S.J. Hitler and Nazi Germany, Routledge (2009)
Williamson, D. Germany: From Defeat to Partition 1945-63, Routledge (2001)
Hallett, G. The Social Market Economy of West Germany, Macmillan (1973)
Hiden, J. The Weimar Republic, Longman (1996)
Murphy, D., Morris, T. and Fulbrook, M. Germany 1848-1991, Collins Educational
(2008)
Peukert, D.J.K. Inside Nazi Germany, Penguin (1993)
Bell, . P.M.H. The Origins of the second World War in Europe, Pearson Education
Limited (2007)
Lang, S. and Kinloch, N. Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-38, Phillip Allan (2009)
Nicholls, D. Adolf Hitler: a Biographical Companion, ABC-CLIO (2000)
Overy, R. The Origins of the Second World War, Routledge (2008)
Things to research/watch
• Find footage of the building of the Berlin Wall on the internet by searching ‘building
Berlin Wall’.
• Find footage of British newsreels of the Kapp Putsch protest marches in the FRG if
you search the internet using the terms ‘Kapp Putsch’ or ‘Protest West Germany’
plus a date (for example, 1969).
• An internet search on ‘Germany history documents and images’ will bring up a
website that can be searched chronologically.
• The Facing History and Ourselves website provides useful information about the
economy of Weimar Germany, including personal accounts.
• Footage of the book burning in Berlin in 1933 can be found on the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum website.
• Colour footage of the 1938 Nuremberg rallies can be found online, although the
sites often also contain neo-Nazi propaganda.
• There is footage of some of Hitler’s speeches on the internet, for example, if you
search ‘Hitler speech Sudetenland’.