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Core Study: Power and Authority in the Modern World 1919-1946
Quick questions on The Nazi state 1933-1939: HSC Modern History Core Study
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What is propaganda?Show answer
Joseph Goebbels became Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda on 13 March 1933. The Reich Chamber of Culture (September 1933) controlled film, theatre, music, press, radio, and literature. The Volksempfanger cheap radio reached 70 per cent of households by 1939. Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will (1935) immortalised the Nuremberg Rallies; her Olympia (1938) glamorised the Berlin Games.
What is women?Show answer
The regime promoted Kinder, Kuche, Kirche (children, kitchen, church). The Law for the Encouragement of Marriage (1933) offered marriage loans. The Mother's Cross (1938) rewarded large families.
What is youth?Show answer
The Hitler Youth (HJ) and the League of German Girls (BDM) became compulsory in 1936 and 1939. By 1939 membership exceeded 8 million. Schools were nazified through the National Socialist Teachers League.
What are churches?Show answer
The Reich Concordat with the Vatican (July 1933) was repeatedly violated. The Protestant "German Christians" allied with the regime; the Confessing Church (Niemoller, Bonhoeffer) opposed it. By 1937 Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge ("With burning concern") attacking Nazi racial policy.
What is q1?Show answer
Source A is an SD report from Saxony, October 1936, on popular reactions to the Olympic Games. Using Source A and your own knowledge, explain the role of propaganda in the Nazi state. [5 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Evaluate the extent to which the Nazi state between 1933 and 1939 was sustained by consent rather than coercion. [25 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Compare the views of Ian Kershaw and Adam Tooze on the economic foundations of the Nazi state. [10 marks]
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