TASK 1 REVISED 2003
HITLER’S GERMANY 1933-1945
WELSH JOINT EDUCATION COMMITTEE
CYD-BWYLLGOR ADDYSG CYMRU
ENTRY LEVEL
CERTIFICATE
IN
HUMANITIES
HISTORY CORE UNIT
HITLER’S GERMANY 1933-1945
A written task to assess historical knowledge and understanding and
an awareness of the characteristics of life in Hitler’s Germany 19331939.
Total
Mark
For Office
Use
Name of Centre
Centre Number
Candidate’s Name (in full)
Candidates must answer all questions.
Students with reading difficulties may have the questions read to them by the
person supervising the test. Oral answers may be given and written into the
answer book by the teacher.
Life in Germany 1933-39
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1.
Complete the sentences using the words in the box below.
Hitler Youth
Nazi
Jews
2
Nuremburg
(i)
Hitler was the leader of the
(ii)
In 1934 the first of a series of Nazi rallies was held in the
specially built stadium at
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Young people in Germany were expected to join
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(iv)
party.
The Nazis blamed
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for Germany’s
problems.
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2.
Look at the source below.
SOURCE A
What did the Nazis want women to do with their lives?
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3.
Look at the four Sources. Answer the questions below.
SOURCE B
SOURCE D
Life in Germany 1933-39
SOURCE C
SOURCE E
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(i) Give two reasons why the Nazis thought it was important for young
people to join the Hitler Youth?
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(ii) What kind of things did boys and girls do in the Hitler Youth
movement?
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4.
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Look at the sources below.
SOURCE F
SOURCE G
1930s
Today
The sources show two families – one in Germany in the 1930s and one
today.
(i) What is similar about these families?
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(ii) What is different about these families?
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TASK 2 REVISED 2003
HITLER’S GERMANY 1933-1945
WELSH JOINT EDUCATION COMMITTEE
CYD-BWYLLGOR ADDYSG CYMRU
ENTRY LEVEL
CERTIFICATE
IN
HUMANITIES
HISTORY CORE UNIT
HITLER’S GERMANY 1933-1945
A written task to assess historical knowledge and understanding and
awareness of the ways Hitler came to power have been represented.
Total
Mark
For Office
Use
Name of Centre
Centre Number
Candidate’s Name (in full)
Candidates must answer all questions.
Students with reading difficulties may have the questions read to them by the
person supervising the test. Oral answers may be given and written into the
answer book by the teacher.
The Rise to Power of the Nazis
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1.
Complete the sentences using the words in the box below.
Fuhrer
Versailles
Chancellor
(i) Most of Hitler’s ideas can be found in Mein
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Kampf
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.
(ii) Hitler believed that Germany must be ruled by one person with
great power who would be known as
(iii) Hitler wanted to destroy the Treaty of
(iv) Hitler became the
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of Germany in
1933.
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2.
Read the source below and answer the question.
SOURCE A
At the time of the Wall Street Crash
in October 1929 only 1,400,000
Germans were unemployed. Within
two years the figure has risen to over
6,000,000. Hunger and poverty were
widespread and people had to beg
for food.
Give two ways the Wall Street Crash affected Germany.
(a)
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3.
Look at this source.
SOURCE B
Unemployed Workers
Using source B say why many people supported Hitler.
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4.
Look at the sources below. They show us how Hitler’s take-over in
Germany has been represented.
SOURCE D
SOURCE C
We believed Hitler
when he said that
once he was in power
the Nazis would
behave better.
Papen, ex-Chancellor
of Germany
Nazis celebrate Hitler becoming Chancellor
SOURCE E
Night of the Long Knives
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(i) Which source shows you each of the following things?
Write the letter of each source in the box beside the correct
sentence.
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Representations of the Past
Source
Some people were pleased when Hitler came to
power
Some politicians believed Hitler
Some people felt that Hitler used force to control
his own people
(ii) Look at Source D. What is there in the picture to suggest that some
people liked Hitler?
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(iii) Look at Source E. Do you think the man who drew the cartoon was
a supporter of Hitler?
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Give a reason for your answer.
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TASK 3 REVISED 2003
HITLER’S GERMANY 1933-1945
WELSH JOINT EDUCATION COMMITTEE
CYD-BWYLLGOR ADDYSG CYMRU
ENTRY LEVEL
CERTIFICATE
IN
HUMANITIES
HISTORY CORE UNIT
HITLER’S GERMANY 1933-1945
A written task to identify and use historical sources and ask
questions about the Nazi treatment of the Jews.
Total
Mark
For Office
Use
Name of Centre
Centre Number
Candidate’s Name (in full)
Candidates must answer all questions.
Students with reading difficulties may have the questions read to them by the
person supervising the test. Oral answers may be given and written into the
answer book by the teacher.
Hitler and the Jews
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1.
Look at the Sources below. Then fill in the blanks in the sentences
below.
SOURCE A
SOURCE B
Shops:
815 destroyed
Synagogues:
267 destroyed
Jews:
20,000 arrested
Looting:
174 arrested
Kristallnackt, Germany, Nov. 1938
SOURCE C
SOURCE D
In every part of Germany,
synagogues were set on
fire and Jewish shops
were destroyed.
Report in The Times, 1938
An Anti-Jew Poster
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Looted
(i)
Nazis
1938
Synagogues
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The
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them were left alone, but in
and
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of the shops were
hated the Jews. At first, most of
, shops
were burnt and destroyed. Many
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(ii) Why were these particular events called Kristallnacht (The Night of
Broken Glass)?
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(iii) Look at Source B. What happened to the Jews during the events of
Kristallnacht?
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2.
Look at this source and then answer the question below.
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SOURCE E
How were the children taught by the Nazis to hate the Jews?
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3.
Look at the Sources below.
SOURCE F
SOURCE G
Jews in Hungary
Prisoners in Buchenwald Camp at
the end of the War
What happened to many Jews during the Second World War?
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4.
Look at the sources below.
SOURCE H
SOURCE J
Total Jewish deaths in concentration
camps during Second World War
6 million
A sketch by a prisoner at Auschwitz
Do you think it important for people to remember what happened to the
Jews in the Second World War?
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TASK 4 REVISED 2003
HITLER’S GERMANY 1933-1945
WELSH JOINT EDUCATION COMMITTEE
CYD-BWYLLGOR ADDYSG CYMRU
ENTRY LEVEL
CERTIFICATE
IN
HUMANITIES
HISTORY CORE UNIT
HITLER’S GERMANY 1933-1945
An oral task to assess historical knowledge and understanding and to
provide reasons for events and changes in Hitler’s Germany 19331945.
Total
Mark
For Office
Use
Name of Centre
Centre Number
Candidate’s Name (in full)
Candidates must answer all questions.
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Look at the Sources below.
SOURCE A
SOURCE B
1928
12
1928
1.3 million
1930
107
Jan 1930
3.0 million
July 1932
230
July 1932
5.6 million
November 1932
196
1933
288
Unemployment in Germany
during the Depression
Nazi seats in the Reichstag,
1928-1933
SOURCE C
SOURCE D
A poster used by the Nazis in
the 1932 German Election. The
poster says Women! Millions of
men without work. Millions of
children without a future.
A poster used by the Nazis in
the 1932 General Election. The
poster says ‘Hitler: Our Last
Hope’.
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SOURCE E
Hitler addressing an Election rally in
1932
1.
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Study Sources A and B.
(a) What happened to the numbers of unemployed in Germany in the
Depression?
(b) Is there a connection between Sources A and B? If so, what?
(c) What is meant by a Depression?
2.
Study Source C.
3
Why do you think that the Nazi Party included men, women and children
on this poster?
3.
Study Sources D and E.
3
Why might some Germans vote for Hitler after looking at these pictures?
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MARKSCHEMES
REVISED 2003
HITLER’S GERMANY 1933-1945
WELSH JOINT EDUCATION COMMITTEE
CYD-BWYLLGOR ADDYSG CYMRU
ENTRY LEVEL
CERTIFICATE
IN
HUMANITIES
HISTORY CORE UNIT
HITLER’S GERMANY 1933-1945
MARKSCHEMES
Markschemes
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Markscheme
History Core Unit
Hitler’s Germany 1933-1945
Task 1 (Written): Life in Hitler’s Germany, 1933-1945
1.
This question tests Knowledge and Understanding.
1
⁄2
2 marks
mark for each correct answer.
(i) Nazi
(ii) Nuremberg
(iii) The Hitler Youth Movement
(iv) Jews.
2.
This question tests Knowledge and Understanding.
2 marks
1 mark for any valid point up to 2, e.g.:
Should stay at home.
Should have children.
Should support husbands
Should not work.
3.
This question tests Skills (use of sources)
4 marks
(i) 1 mark for each valid point up to 2 e.g.:
Wanted to be supporter of Nazis.
Appeal of open air life.
Helped to fill leisure time meaningfully.
(ii) 1 mark for each valid point up to 2 e.g.:
athletics/javelin/throwing
jumping over flames
model making
reading Nazi literature
Markschemes
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1.
This question tests Knowledge and Understanding.
2 marks
One mark for similarity or difference; two marks for a reference to both
e.g.:
(i) Similarity: Family shows
mother, father and children.
(ii) Differences:
Markschemes
1930s family poorer.
More children in 1930s family.
People dressed differently.
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Markscheme
History Core Unit
Hitler’s Germany 1933-1945
Task 2 (Written): The Rise to Power of the Nazis
1.
This question tests Knowledge and Understanding.
1
⁄2
2 marks
mark for each correct answer:
Mein Kampf
Fuhrer
Versailles
Chancellor
2.
This question tests Knowledge and Understanding.
2 marks
One mark for a valid point e.g.:
Collapse of prices of shares on Wall Street stock exchange.
Brought higher unemployment.
Caused widespread poverty and hunger.
3.
This question tests Knowledge and Understanding.
1 mark
One mark for a valid point e.g.:
Unemployed workers thought Hitler would give them jobs / Hitler would
make their lives better.
Markschemes
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4.
This question tests Skills (representations)
5 marks
(i) One mark for one correct / two marks for all three.
Source D
Source C
Source E
(ii) A huge crowd gathered to listen to Hitler - one mark.
(iii) One mark for No; second mark for explanation e.g.:
Hitler has forced the soldiers to obey him.
Hitler has bullied and killed people.
Markschemes
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Markscheme
History Core Unit
Hitler’s Germany 1933-1945
Task 3 (Written): Hitler and the Jews
1.
This question tests Knowledge and Understanding.
1
⁄2
4 marks
mark for each correct answer
Nazis
1938
Synagogues
Looted
(ii) One mark referring to many windows were broken.
(iii) One mark referring to many Jews were arrested and their homes
and shops either looted or destroyed.
2.
This question tests Knowledge and Understanding.
2 marks
1 mark for each valid point up to 2 e.g.:
By learning nasty things about the Jews.
Teachers taught children to hate the Jews.
Jews were bullied in class.
3.
This question tests Skills (some evaluation)
2 marks
One mark for each valid point up to 2 e.g.:
Jews were sent to concentration camps.
or
Jews were put into forced labour camps.
Markschemes
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4.
This question tests Skills (evaluation)
2 marks
1 mark for each valid point up to 2 e.g.:
Killing of Jews most horrible event in history.
Make sure it never happens again.
Markschemes
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Markscheme
History Core Unit
Hitler’s Germany 1933-1945
Task 4 (Oral): Hitler’s Coming to Power
1.
This question tests Knowledge and Understanding.
4 marks
(a) The number of unemployed in Germany rose from 1.3 million in
July 1932 to 5.6 million in 1928 - one mark.
(b) Award one mark for Yes. Give a second mark for referring to the
support for the Nazi Party rising steeply because many people
were unemployed.
(c) Award one mark for a reference to collapse in money markets,
unemployment and lack of business confidence.
2.
This question tests Skills (some evaluation)
3 marks
One mark for each valid point e.g.:
Nazis wanted to appeal to women voters as well as men.
Nazis placed great importance on the family and family values.
Nazis wanted to show themselves as a caring party.
3.
This question tests Skills (some evaluation)
3 marks
One mark for each valid point e.g.:
People felt Nazis were a strong party who would solve problems of
unemployment/depression.
Hitler was a dynamic leader.
People were attracted to the marching/uniforms etc.
Markschemes
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