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A2 History - Nazi Germany 1933-1945: Topic ListSection 1: the Nazi Dictatorship 1933-1939TopicSub-topicRAG RateHitler’s Consolidation of Power, March 1933-1934Changes to local and government administrationsThe establishment of the one-party stateThe Night of the Long KnivesThe impact of the death of President HindenburgThe Terror StateThe extent of totalitarianism (how totalitarian was Nazi Germany?)The police, SS, SD, Gestapo and courtsOpposition: Non-conformity, resistance and protest against the NazisThe aims, methods and impact of Nazi propagandaEconomic Policies and the Degree of RecoveryThe policies and different approaches of Schact and GoeringStatistics on the German economy (e.g. real wages, unemployment, public expenditure)The strengths and weaknesses of the economyWho benefitted? (especially to do with bug business, agriculture, workers)Social PoliciesYoung people (policies towards them, their reaction/attitudes to the Nazis )Churches (Protestant/Catholics, polices towards them, their reaction to Nazi policies)Women (policies towards them, their reaction/attitudes to the Nazis)Workers (policies towards them, their reaction/attitudes to the Nazis)Benefits and drawbacks of Nazi rule (for workers, youth, women, big business/industrial elites, members of the Nazi party)To what extent did Volksgemeinschaft exist in Germany?Section 2: The Radical State, 1933-1945TopicSub-TopicRAG RateThe Radicalisation of the StateNazi racial ideology (the 25 Point Programme, the history/origins of anti-Semitism, the Aryan race, the Untemenschen)Policies towards the mentally ill, asocials and homosexuals (including sterilisation, euthanasia, T4)Polices towards members of religious sects, the Roma and SintiAnti-SemitismEarly policies towards the Jews, including the boycott of Jewish stopsLater policies towards the Jews, including the Nuremburg LawsThe development of ant-Semitic Policies and ActionsThe effect of the Anschluss with Austria on anti-Semitic policies (including the history of the Jews in Austria)Reichkristallnacht (what triggered it, what happened, why so many ordinary Germans took part, the aftermath)Emigration and the impact of the war against Poland (did emigration work? Why new challenges did the war against Poland produce?)The treatment of Jews in the early years of the warThe Einsatzgruppen (who they were, their purpose, where they operated, their victims, their methods)Ghettos (why were they needed and conditions) and deportation (why did it become difficult?)Section 3: The Impact of War, 1939-1945TopicSub-TopicRAG RateMoraleRationing (why? To what extent 1939-1941? Why did it increase after 1942? What was rationed? What was the impact on Germans?)War propaganda (what was its purpose? How did it affect morale?)The changing impact of war on different sections of society (elites, workers, women, youth)Who was affected most by the war, either positively or negatively?The Wartime EconomyEconomic benefits/drawbacks of: the annexation of Czechoslovakia, invasion of Poland, the Battle of Britain, the declaration of war on the USAThe impact of bombing on the economy from 1942 onwards (including statistics)The Work of SpeerThe mobilisation of the labour force and prisoners of warThe German economy under SpeerEconomic problems during war (e.g. Gauletier ‘empires’ and corruption, inadequate mobilisation of labour)How successful was Speer in tackling these problems? Did he effectively organise the wartime economy?The Racial StatePolicies towards the Jews and the ‘untermenschen’ during wartimeWhy did a European war make emigration of Jews more difficult?Why would war lead to greater persecution of Jews/Untermenschen?Concentration camps: especially Auschwitz, Sobibor and Treblinka (organisation, functions, who was sent there, how and when they became extermination camps)The role of key individuals in the Wansee Conference and the ‘Final Solution’What happened at the Wannsee Conference? What were the outcomes?What was the role of the following in bringing about the Holocaust: Hitler, the Nazi state, anti-Semitism in ordinary Germans, WW2?How did Hitler’s personal views on the Jews lead to the death of 6 million Jews?Opposition and Resistance in WartimeCritics of the war/the Nazis: students, churchmen, the army and civiliansTo what extent did war lead to an increase in opposition to the Nazi regime?Examples of types of opposition/resistance during the war, how successful they were, and how threatening they were to the NazisAssassination attempts and the July Bomb Plot (why did von Stauffenberg and other officers turn against Hitler? What happened in the plot?) Overview of the Nazi State by 1945Assess the position of: the racial state, the economy, society (including opposition), the leadership (including Hitler) by 1945To what extent did the Nazis achieve their aims of Volksgemeinschaft and Gleischaltung between 1933 and 1945? ................
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