What you'll learn
Germany's journey from empire, through democracy, to Nazi dictatorship.
Kaiser and Weimar
- Wilhelmine Germany and the impact of WWI.
- The Weimar Republic: early problems (Versailles, hyperinflation 1923), the Stresemann recovery, and cultural change.
The rise of the Nazis
- Impact of the Depression (1929); growth of Nazi support; Hitler becomes Chancellor (1933).
- Consolidation: Reichstag Fire, Enabling Act, Night of the Long Knives, Führer.
Nazi Germany
- Control: propaganda, the SS and Gestapo, terror.
- Life under the Nazis: youth, women, workers; persecution and the Holocaust.
Exam tips
- Learn how Hitler turned Chancellorship into dictatorship step by step.
- Support 'life in Nazi Germany' answers with specific policies.
Common mistakes
- Saying Hitler 'seized' power (he was appointed, then consolidated).
- Ignoring Weimar's mid-1920s recovery.