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4 marksQ4 Describe two
Describe two problems faced by opponents of the Nazis in the years 1933 to 1934.
Germany & the Depression Practice Questions
Question 2
4 marksQ4 Describe two
Describe two problems faced by German governments in the years 1930 to 1933.
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8 marksQ5 In what ways
In what ways were the lives of the German people affected by the economic and political crisis, 1929–1933?
Explain your answer.
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8 marksQ5 In what ways
In what ways were the lives of German workers affected by economic change, 1890–1932?
Explain your answer.
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16 marksRead Interpretations A and B below, then answer parts (a), (b) and (c).
Interpretation A: from a tape-recorded interview given in 1979 by a man who had been an unemployed factory worker in Düsseldorf during the Depression and who later worked in an armaments factory.
Written for practice: not a real historical interpretation.
In 1932 I had been out of work for two years and my family was close to going hungry. Within three years of Hitler coming to power I had a steady job and my wife had a place on a cheap holiday by the sea through Strength Through Joy. People say now that we were all forced into it, but nobody forced me. We supported him because he gave us work, order in the streets and pride in being German again.
Interpretation B: from an account written in 1946 by a German schoolteacher who had been dismissed from his post in 1935 after refusing to join the Nazi teachers' organisation, published for German readers after the defeat of Germany.
Written for practice: not a real historical interpretation.
It is too easy to say that the German people chose Hitler. From 1933 the newspapers, the radio and the cinema said only what Goebbels permitted; the trade unions were abolished and the other parties banned. I lost my post in 1935 and my neighbours stopped speaking to me, not out of hatred but out of fear of the Gestapo and the camps. What looked like enthusiasm at the rallies was largely obedience. Germans cheered because silence had become dangerous.
(a)
Q1 How do the interpretations differ
How does Interpretation B differ from Interpretation A about why Germans supported Hitler, 1930–1939?
Explain your answer based on what it says in Interpretations A and B.
(b)
Q2 Why do the interpretations differ
Why might the authors of Interpretations A and B have a different interpretation about why Germans supported Hitler, 1930–1939?
Explain your answer using Interpretations A and B and your contextual knowledge.
(c)
Q3 Which interpretation is more convincing
Which interpretation gives the more convincing opinion about why Germans supported Hitler, 1930–1939?
Explain your answer based on your contextual knowledge and what it says in Interpretations A and B.
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16 marksRead Interpretations A and B below, then answer parts (a), (b) and (c).
Interpretation A: from the memoirs of a labourer from Berlin who had been unemployed for two years before joining the SA in 1930, published in West Germany in 1970.
Written for practice: not a real historical interpretation.
I had been out of work for two years when I joined the SA. In the hostel there was soup, a bed and men who treated me as a comrade again. We marched with the band through districts where the Communists ruled the streets, and for the first time people looked at us with respect. Of course there were fights, but the Reds started most of them. The SA gave thousands of us the discipline and the hope that the Republic never gave us.
Interpretation B: from an article by a local Social Democratic Party official in a town in northern Germany, printed in a party newspaper in the summer of 1932 before the Reichstag election.
Written for practice: not a real historical interpretation.
Do not be deceived about these brown columns. The SA does not win Germans by argument but by terror. They come into our districts to provoke, they break up our meetings, and this summer scarcely a weekend passes without funerals. Working men who shout them down are beaten in the dark. Those who put their cross beside the Nazis on polling day do so because they are frightened of the stormtroopers, not because they believe a word of what Hitler promises.
(a)
Q1 How do the interpretations differ
How does Interpretation B differ from Interpretation A about the role of the SA, 1929–1932?
Explain your answer based on what it says in Interpretations A and B.
(b)
Q2 Why do the interpretations differ
Why might the authors of Interpretations A and B have a different interpretation about the role of the SA, 1929–1932?
Explain your answer using Interpretations A and B and your contextual knowledge.
(c)
Q3 Which interpretation is more convincing
Which interpretation gives the more convincing opinion about the role of the SA, 1929–1932?
Explain your answer based on your contextual knowledge and what it says in Interpretations A and B.
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12 marksQ6 Which was more important
Which of the following was the more important reason why so many Germans accepted the Nazi dictatorship in the years 1933 to 1939:
- the failure of Weimar democracy before 1933
- economic recovery under the Nazis?
Explain your answer with reference to both bullet points.