Life in Hitler's Germany, 1933-39

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The main focus of this Unit is on the society, economy and ideology of peacetime Germany from 1933-1939.

Special attention is given to the ways in which the Nazi party policies impacted on day-to-day living and working conditions of men, women and children in the new Third Reich. The exam on this unit is based on one source-based question. The exam lasts one hour in length.

 
 
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Unit 3 Course Overview Download Syllabus and Edexcel Course Notes
Examiners Report (Summer 2002)
Board Sample Paper
Summer 2001
Summer 2002
Hitler's Aims (1933)
Who were the Nazis? Encyclopaedia of Nazism
The Role of Hitler Within the Nazi State
What was the Fuhrer Principle? The Role of the Leader

Totalitarian leadership from Mein Kampf

What did 'Obedience to the Fuhrer' mean? Diagram: Structure of Nazi State
Roots of Nazism Essay on Nietzsche and the role of the "Superman"
Ideology and Philosophy of Nazism Sources on the Ideology of Nazism
What was Life Like Inside the New Germany? Quotes and test question on HJ Fest and Albert Speer
What is/was the Aryan theme in Hiter's philosophy? Crossword: Nazi Ideology
War Economy and Peacetime Germany

A War-Economy in Peacetime

Webster's dictionary definitions
Nazi Economic Policy: Overview

Who was Schacht?
Schacht and the Stabilisation of the Nazi Germany (1933-36)
Who was Herman Goering?
Goering and the Second 4 Year Plan
Second 4 Year Plan (part 2)
The Timing of the 2nd 4-Year Plan
How Successful was the policy of autarky? Crossword: The Economy and the Reich, 1933-39
Guns or Butter?
Did Hitler Plan for the Second World War? Test Question: Economy

Work, Employment and the Volksgemeinschaft
Who was Dr.Robert Ley?
DAF - The German Labour Front
RAD (German Labour Front)
Did Goring and Schacht lay the foundations for Hitler to go to war?
Rearmament? (1936-39)
Was there an economic crisis in 1939 that pushed Germany into war?
Who gained most from the Nazi Economy? Crossword: Employment Policy, DAF and Ley
The Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth Pictures of Hitler Youth activities and quotes
Ideology and Youth Policy
Was Hitler's Youth Policy a Success(?)
Hitler Youth: Key Points
Did Hitler Manage to Control Hearts and Minds
Women and the Reich
Role of Women Nazi Policy and Women (from activehistory.co.uk)
What was Nazi policy towards women?
Women, Work, Leadership and Status? Propaganda, Femininity and the Reich
Women, Motherhood and the Reich Quotes and Sources on Women in the Reich
Women and Lebensborn Article: Women in the Third Reich
Conclusions in Context
Class and the Reich
People and Class in Nazi Germany Article by Dick Geary on Class and the Nazi State
Who were the Mittlestand?
Class and Political Allegiances in Germany
  The Elites/Junker Class
  The Middle Class - Mittlestand
  Industrial Working Class
  Business Industrial Class and Management
Conclusions in Context
Social Policy, the Reich and the Jewish Question
Race and Social Policy
Hitler's Mein Kampf
Origins of Anti-Semitism
Appeal of Anti-Semitism
The Jewish Problem: Germany 1933
Anti-Jewish Legislation: The April Laws (1933)
The Conditions in Germany for Anti-Semitism
The Nuremberg Laws (1935)
Nuremberg: Consequences and Comment
Emigration Policy and the Jews Madagascar Plan
Aryan Policy and the Economy
Persecution of Minorities
Treatment of Racial Groups Who Were the 'Aliens' in Nazi Germany?
Policy and Progress: 1933-37
Radicalisation of Anti-Semitism: 1937-38 Diagram of the Persecution of Minorities 1933-39
Kristallnacht 9-10 Nov 1938
Kristallnacht: Opportunity, Response and Consequence
Who Else was on the Nazi's List of Outsiders?
Nazi Jewish Policy and Time
Hitler, Law and Race
The SS and Jewish Policy
Race, The Politics of Race and Eugenics
The Church and Nazism
Relationship Between The Nazi Party and the Church
Nazi Party Treatment of The Church
Hitler's Policy for the Church
Church Response
Church and the Nazis: Key Points
 

   

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