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IN-DEPTH STUDY - NAZI GERMANY c.1933-1945

Candidates will be required to study in depth a range of historical topics and problems relating to Nazi Germany c.1933-1945. Candidates will be required to consider a range of perspectives including political, social, economic, religious and cultural issues. This will be primarily through a range of different types of historical sources, including contemporary and later sources and historical interpretations. In addition, candidates will be required to investigate in greater detail an historical issue arising from within the in-depth study itself.Candidates will also have to study further topics or themes arising out of the in-depth study.

 
   

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Origins:

  • Reasons for Nazi party growth and support by 1933

  • Hitler's appointment as Chancellor.

  

Key issues:

  • The establishment of the Nazi dictatorship

  • The roles of propaganda, indoctrination and terror in the Third Reich.

  • Nazi social, religious and racial ideology and policy.

  • The nature and organisation of the Nazi political system.

  • Nazi economic policy: recovery and rearmament

  • Nazi foreign policy up to 1939

  

Significance /

consequences:

The significance and consequences of the main developments in Nazi Germany to 1939