Germany, 1919–1945

NAZI RISE TO POWER

Key issue: What were the weaknesses and strengths of Weimar democracy?

• The nature of Weimar democracy
• Post-war economic conditions as a cause of discontent
• Revolts, rebellions and opposition to Weimar, 1919–1923
• The origins and history of National Socialism, 1919–1925
• The Munich Putsch, 1923
• Stresemann and Weimar successes, 1923–1929.

Key issue: How was Hitler able to come to power?

• The depression, its impact on Germany and contribution to the rise of National Socialism
• Political instability, 1929–1933
• The emergence of the Nazis as a mass party, 1928–1930
• The role of Hitler in the development of the Nazi Party; the leadership of the Nazis
• The struggle for power, 1930–1933.

CONTROL AND OPPOSITION

Key issue: How did Hitler create a dictatorship?

• The creation of the one-party state: the Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Law, the Night of the Long Knives
• The removal of military and political opposition.

Key issue: How effectively did the Nazis control Germany in the years 1933–1945?

• The nature of the totalitarian state; the abolition of freedom, individual liberties and trade unions, the ** organisation's role in the Nazi state
• The nature of continuing opposition and resistance within the Third Reich: the White Rose Movement, the work of individuals such as Cardinal Galen, Niemoller and Bonhoeffer
• The opposition of the military, the Kreisau Circle, 1939-1944, Stauffenberg bomb plot 1944.

GERMAN ECONOMY AND SOCEITY

Key issue: How much change…