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Content coverage/ key questions
Learning outcomes
The early years of the Weimar Republic, the new constitution and socio-economic
problems/What was the impact of the First World War on Germany?
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To identify the main problems that Germany faced in 1919 as a result of the First World War: serious food
and fuel shortages, disease, inflation, war dead and injured, communist uprisings (the Raterepublik in
Munich), the flight of the Kaiser.
To identify potential weaknesses in the constitution of the Weimar Government.
The early years of the Weimar Republic, the Treaty of Versailles/Why was there so much
opposition to the Treaty of Versailles in Germany?
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To understand the main terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
To explain German reactions to the Treaty of Versailles.
The early years of the Weimar Republic, opposition: the Spartacist Uprising and the Kapp
Putsch/How serious was early opposition to the Weimar Government?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idZuVcTTGuU&list=PLF671B450DD417592&index=4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48lSpWMnSpA&list=PLF671B450DD417592&index=5
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To understand what happened during the Spartacist Uprising and Kapp Putsch and who was involved.
To evaluate how serious a threat was posed to the Weimar Government by these opposition groups.
The early Nazi Party/What attracted some people to support the Nazi Party in the early
1920s?
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To identify key aspects of the message of the Nazi Party in the early 1920s.
To explain how Hitler became leader of the Nazi Party by 1921.
To identify the main features of the early Nazi Party, image, SA.
Economic crisis in the Weimar Republic in 1923, invasion of the Ruhr and
hyperinflation/Why did the Weimar Government face economic crisis in 1923?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI1i5yhwOz8&list=PLF671B450DD417592&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfwIXdOoWiE&index=3&list=PLF671B450DD417592
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18WlSbVja-g&index=20&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE
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To identify how Germans were affected by the economic crisis of 1923.
To identify the reasons for the economic crisis: reparations payments, invasion of the Ruhr, passive
resistance in the Ruhr, hyperinflation.
The Munich Putsch of 1923/Was the Munich Putsch a total disaster for the Nazi Party?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvD8bbCiAVE&index=1&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE
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To identify the main reasons for the Nazis attempting a putsch in Munich in 1923.
To explain the key stages of the Putsch and the reasons for failure.
To evaluate whether the Munich Putsch was a total disaster, involving a consideration of the
consequences of the putsch.
The Weimar Republic, economic recovery/How far did the Weimar Republic recover
economically between 1924-28?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WilPoLV1r5Y&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE&index=19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbW8mA_cdFg&list=PLF87017D285FBAEBC&index=4
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To identify the main reasons for the revival of the German economy 1924-28.
To evaluate how far this recovery was superficial or genuine?
The Nazi Party 1924-28/How did the Nazi Party develop in the 1920s and was it popular
with Germans?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoxIVmIFgAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3wgi5P59Jw&index=7&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE
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To identify the main ways that the Nazi Party developed in the 1920s: re-organisation, publicity and
propaganda increased, focus on the personality of Hitler as leader, strengthening of the SA.
To recognise the limited amount of support the Nazi Party attracted (gained only 2.6% of the vote in the
1928 election).
The political and economic consequences of the Great Depression/What was the impact of
the Great Depression in Germany?
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The increasing popularity of the Nazi Party after 1929/Why did so many people vote for
the Nazis after 1929?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTPEwJs5jas&index=6&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTeIu2mMeuA&list=PLD2A2D08153281CB9&index=5&feature=
plpp_video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y26XsANjgjU&list=PLD2A2D08153281CB9&index=6&feature=pl
pp_video
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How Hitler was able to become Chancellor/Why was Hitler made Chancellor of Germany in
1933?
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To identify the main socio-economic consequences of the Great Depression in Germany: unemployment,
homelessness.
To identify the main political consequences of the Great Depression in Germany: rise of extremism, the
collapse of Weimar democracy due to rule by presidential decree through Article 48.
To identify the importance of the economic and political situation in creating a receptive audience for
Nazism.
To identify what aspects of the Nazi message increasingly appealed to which groups within Germany.
To identify the role of various factors in causing Hitler to become Chancellor: the mistakes of Weimar
presidents, the actions of Hindenburg, the popularity of the Nazis in the elections, the Constitution of the
Week
Content coverage/ key questions
Learning outcomes
Weimar Republic, Hitler’s actions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuvbi4T7hQs&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE&index=34
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How Hitler was able to gain total power in Germany/Did the Nazis start the Reichstag Fire?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsY8d97t6nM&index=26&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE
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How Hitler was able to gain total power in Germany, Enabling Act/What did the Enabling
Act show about what Hitler’s rule was going to be like?
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How Hitler was able to gain total power in Germany, Night of the Long Knives/Why did
Hitler turn on the SA in the Night of the Long Knives?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mci4fAV1Wto&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE&index=27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxgBq5hWKuY&index=1&list=PLF87017D285FBAEBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ8ewZySQls&index=3&list=PLF87017D285FBAEBC
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To identify the main reasons why Hitler launched the Night of the Long Knives.
To understand the main consequences of the event in helping Hitler achieve total power.
Nazi methods of control, the police state/In what ways did the Nazis rule by fear?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7sslhAME0s&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE&index=28
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD0LGY9lMRM&list=PL8DC9688AFAEDC4D8&index=1&feature=
plpp_video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN0C6EgPv8o&list=PL8DC9688AFAEDC4D8&index=2&feature=p
lpp_video
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To identify the main elements of the police state: the SA, SS, Gestapo and early concentration camps.
Nazi methods of control, Goebbels, censorship and propaganda/In what ways did the Nazis
use propaganda?
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To identify the means used to spread Nazi propaganda: radio, rallies, newspapers, censorship, schools,
cinema, posters etc.
To identify the messages that the Nazis sought to spread through this propaganda.
Nazi methods of control, the churches/How did the Nazis attempt to control the churches
in Germany and were they successful?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_331839&feature=iv&src_vid=
cctVSei5Nec&v=w5ZIrziHxag
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To identify the main methods that the Nazis used to deal with the churches, recognising the differences
in approach to the Catholic and Protestant churches.
To evaluate the extent to which the Nazis were successful in their attempt to control the churches.
Opposition, church resistance/Why was there so little opposition to Hitler from the
churches in Germany?
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To identify churchmen who did speak out against the Nazis: Niemoller and Bonhoeffer.
To explain why there was relatively little Christian opposition to the Nazis.
Opposition, youth resistance/Why did some young Germans oppose the Nazis and with
what results?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tHHxCaQ30I&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE&index=30
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWClMNLZodU&list=PL8DC9688AFAEDC4D8&index=5&feature=
plpp_video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsN2de8hTJs&list=PL8DC9688AFAEDC4D8&index=6&feature=pl
pp_video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZJXLZdnhCI&list=PL8DC9688AFAEDC4D8&index=20
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To identify the aims and methods used by youth opposition to the Nazis, particularly the White Rose
Group and the Edelweiss Pirates.
To evaluate the impact of this opposition on the Nazi regime.
Opposition, army resistance/Why did the plan to assassinate Hitler in 1944 fail?
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To identify the reasons why Claus von Stauffenberg led Operation Valkyrie in 1944.
To explain why the plot failed.
To explain why Hitler acted as he did in the aftermath of the plot.
Social Impact of the Nazi State: the education of the young/What was it like going to
school in Nazi Germany?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8UlviPpTzs&index=13&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE
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To identify the ways in which indoctrination was used in Nazi Schools.
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To identify the important consequences of the Reichstag Fire for the Nazis: the passing of the Emergency
Decrees, the arrest of many Communists.
To evaluate the likelihood of the Nazis having started the fire themselves to strengthen their power.
To identify the main provisions of the Enabling Act and explain why these were important in
strengthening Hitler’s control.
To explain what the Enabling Act, and the circumstances in which it was passed, showed about the nature
of Hitler’s rule.
Week
12
Content coverage/ key questions
Learning outcomes
Social Impact of the Nazi State: youth movements/How effective were Nazi youth
movements in gaining the support of the young?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U_JIv8qsO4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=betB1_uq4s8&index=11&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVUAIPMsZ60&list=PL8DC9688AFAEDC4D8&index=3&feature=
plpp_video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RV14xFAFvg&list=PL8DC9688AFAEDC4D8&index=4&feature=pl
pp_video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXqebnPU8Rw&list=PL8DC9688AFAEDC4D8&index=12
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Social Impact of the Nazi State: women/What was the ideal Nazi woman?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6GPRuqmHsk&index=17&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE
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To identify the ideal characteristics of a woman according to the Nazis: emphasis on marriage,
motherhood, domesticity, health and Aryan race.
To explain why the Nazis encouraged these features as ideals.
To identify how and why the perception of the role of women changed during the war.
Social Impact of the Nazi State: workers/How did the Nazis solve unemployment?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQUW4n5gBwc&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE&index=32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvGBu1M1kQk&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE&index=33
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To identify the features of the main economic policies: the New Plan and the Four Year Plan.
To identify the importance of job creation schemes like the autobahn building projects, the
Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) in providing compulsory work, and rearmament in reducing unemployment.
Social Impact of the Nazi State: the standard of work and living conditions for German
workers/Were the workers better off under the Nazis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2z1VWvbzUM&list=PLC5037E7D433E2AFE&index=35
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To identify the main incentives for workers provided by the Nazis: employment, strength through joy and
beauty of labour organisations, Volkswagen schemes.
To identify the reasons why workers might be discontented with the Nazis: wage rates declined, lack of
consumer goods available for purchase, trade unions banned, the Volkswagen scheme did not actually
provide cars for workers.
Nazi beliefs in Aryan supremacy and the master race/What did the Nazis believe about
race?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITz72sRcpzU&list=PL8DC9688AFAEDC4D8&index=10&feature=p
lpp_video&bpctr=1347309071
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To understand Nazi beliefs about the Aryan master race.
To identify which groups of people the Nazis classified as Untermenschen.
Nazi treatment of Jews 1933–39/How did the Nazis persecute the Jews 1933–38?
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To identify the methods used by the Nazis to persecute the Jews and understand how these changed
during the period 1933-38: propaganda, segregation, Nuremberg Laws, boycotts of shops, marking with
the star of David, Kristallnacht.
Nazi treatment of minorities, the disabled, the ‘euthanasia’ campaign/How did the Nazis
treat the disabled?
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To identify the methods used by the Nazis against the disabled and gypsies and how these changed during
the period of Nazi rule: discrimination, concentration camps, sterilisation, murder.
The Final Solution/How and why did Nazi policy towards the Jews change after the
outbreak of the Second World War?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfR9TiNm3rQ&list=PLC2171E101729FBE8&index=4&feature=pl
pp_video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS98MAN3Xtg&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcQvxysk03U&feature=related
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To identify the ways in which Nazi policy towards the Jews changed after 1939.
To explain why Nazi policy towards the Jews changed.
The Final Solution/What was the nature of the Nazi death camps?
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To identify the main features of the Nazi death camps.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpdJhA5aJkA&list=PLC2171E101729FBE8&index=5&feature=pl
pp_video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_9Y37wbUR0&list=PLC2171E101729FBE8&index=14&feature=
plpp_video
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To explain the different youth groups available to boys and girls of differing ages.
To identify the activities offered by the youth movements and explain why the Nazis encouraged such
activities.
To evaluate how successful the youth movement were in attracting the support of the young.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpOI3GL6fc&list=PL8DC9688AFAEDC4D8&index=22&feature=plpp_video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfNvVSQXtDw&feature=related