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GCSE Schools History ProjectEnquiry in Depth: Germany, 1919–45Question 5Portraits of Hitler appeared in all schools, government offices and public places. On his birthday,20 April, his picture appeared in all newspapers and shop windows. He was portrayed in photographsand newsreels as a man who worked tirelessly for his country and who loved children.Question 6The Nazis thought that young women who were fit and healthy would produce fit and healthychildren. Young men would one day be soldiers and could learn teamwork as well as improvefitness through sport. Many fit and healthy young people would show that the Germans really werea ‘master race’.Question 7Type of controlA special governmentdepartmentBooksNewspapersRadioMass ralliesNotesA special government department, the Ministry of Enlightenment andPropaganda, was set up under Josef Goebbels. Its purpose was to mould publicopinion and build up and maintain complete loyalty to Hitler.Books by Jews, Communists and anyone the Nazis disapproved of were burned inpublic in May 1933. After this, only books approved by Goebbels’s departmentcould be published.Socialist and Communist newspapers were either taken over immediately ordestroyed. Others were taken over gradually by the Nazi publishing company,Eher Verlag. All news was controlled and censored carefully by the state-ownedpress agency.Radio stations were put under the control of the Reich Radio Company by 1934.Cheap radios were mass-produced to ensure that more families had one and allHitler’s speeches were broadcast. Loudspeakers were also placed in town squares,offices, factories and cafés to make sure everyone heard the speeches.Mass rallies were intended to demonstrate the efficiency, order and discipline theNazi regime had brought, to reinforce the loyalty of those who attended and toprovide a spectacular and emotional atmosphere for promoting Hitler’s image.Question 8Visitors were greatly impressed with the efficiency of the Germans’ organisation. Germany also wonmore medals than any other country.Question 9The fact that he was black undermined Nazi claims that white Aryans were superior to other races.Question 10Under the Weimar Republic artists and writers had enjoyed great freedom of expression. The Nazisimposed strict controls over all forms of art.Question 11ExamplePaintings of historical scenes withtypical Aryan heroesLarge public buildings of stonewith classical featuresNazi belief it was meant to reinforcePride in Germany’s past; the importance of physical strengthThese would reflect the strength, power and importance of thestate over the needs of individuals18
Student Workbook Teacher NotesExampleThe banning of American jazzmusicFilms like The Eternal Jew andJud SüssNazi belief it was meant to reinforceThis music originated with ‘racially inferior’ black Americans andwas therefore inferior musicThe Jewish people were ‘racially inferior’ and were to be despisedQuestion 12Level 1: a simple answer describing details in the source.Level 2: a simple inference drawn from the source, e.g. ‘The Games were a success.’Level 3: a more complex inference drawn from the source, e.g. ‘Hitler and other Nazi leaders wereat the closing ceremony so this shows how important they thought the Games were.’Question 13Level 1: a simple answer based only on details from Source B.Level 2: a simple comparison based on details in both sources, e.g. ‘Source B says anti-Semiticpropaganda was reduced but Source A does not mention this.’Level 3: an answer based on a more developed understanding of the difference between thesources, e.g. ‘Source A just describes how successful and well organised the Games were, butSource B suggests that they were really just a propaganda exercise to improve Germany’s imageand gave a false impression of life under the Nazis.’Question 14Level 1: an answer that just describes differences between the sources.Level 2: an answer based on simple, undeveloped reasons linked to audience, author or date,e.g. ‘Source A was written in the 1930s but Source B was written in 2000 so more could have beenknown about the real purpose of the Games by then.’Level 3: an answer based on more developed reasons supported by additional knowledge,e.g. ‘The reporter in Source A has a limited purpose and is just describing the final ceremony forreaders of the newspaper. It may not have been so obvious at the time that Germany was presentinga false image to the world. I know many foreign athletes even gave the Nazi salute on the openingday ceremony. Source B is written for students and is intended to put the Games into a wider historicalcontext. We know that the persecution of Jews and others continued in Germany after 1936 soit is more obvious to us that the Games were used for propaganda purposes.’Question 15Level 1: simple statements supported by limited knowledge.Level 2: more developed statements supported by relevant knowledge of at least one area of thearts, e.g. art or cinema.Level 3: analysis supported by relevant knowledge of Nazi policies over a good range of points,e.g. architecture, art, cinema, radio etc.Level 4: in addition, reaches a clear conclusion that attempts to assess the extent to which Nazipolicies were successful.Topic 8 The persecution of Jews and other minoritygroups, 1933–45Question 1It was superior to all other races and so had to be kept pure.GCSE Schools History Project Enquiry in Depth: Germany, 1919–4519
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