History KS4 Nazi Germany

1 Germany and the End of The Treaty of Versailles

World War I Danzig made a
Northern free city & run by
Schleswig given the League of
This presentation is to Denmark Nations

designed to teach:
• Events in Germany Eupen & Malmedy Germany Posen & Silesia
given to Belgium lost to Poland
at the end of World Rhine made a
War I, including the Saar
demilitarized
zone
Poland

November Armistice coalfields

placed under
Sudentenland now part of
Czechoslovakia
• the role of Germany French rule
for 15 years Austria
Hungary
in the peace process France
Alsace & Lorraine returned to Austria & Hungary now two separate
• the dictated peace France, who’d lost them in 1871 countries & forbidden to unite with Germany

and the reaction in

Germany to the 8 of 11 © Boardworks Ltd 2003

signing of the Treaty

of Versailles
• terms of the treaty,
both territorial,
military, and
economic
• the effects of the
treaty and who was
blamed in Germany
for its signing.

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approximately 11 slides.

2. The Failure of the The logistics of hyperinflation

Weimar Republic
This presentation is
designed to teach:
• what the Weimar
Republic was
• reasons for unrest in
the Weimar
Republic in its
earlier years,
including the Kapp
Putsch and the Ruhr
Rising 12 of 21
“Berlin, August 11, 1922 – One of the comedy-tragedy
episodes of the visit … was the payment by the German
government of their railway expenses … This was done in
20-mark notes, and it required seven office boys with huge
waste-paper baskets full of these notes to carry the full
sum from the office down to the railway station.”
from Lord D’Abernon’s diary.
In 1923, paper
money was worth
so little that
children built play
forts with bricks of
currency!
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• the causes and

effects of the

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economic crisis and

hyperinflation
• the actions of
Stresemann as
chancellor and
foreign minister,
including the Dawes
Plan and the Locarno
Treaties
• the impact of the
Wall Street Crash
and the Great
Depression on the
Weimar Republic
• causes of the
weakness of the
Weimar Republic –
including
unemployment,
political parties, and
the Treaty of
Versailles.

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approximately 21 slides.

3. Hitler’s Rise to Power Unemployment and the growth of Nazism

This presentation is
8,000,000
designed to teach: 7,000,000

• Hitler’s early life 6,000,000

Number of
5,000,000
• the origins of the 4,000,000
Unemployed
Membership
Nazi party 3,000,000
2,000,000
of the Party

• Nazi party meetings 1,000,000

and the emergence 0

1926

1928

1929

1930

1931

1932

of the SA
• source material on What link do you notice between unemployment and
membership of the Nazi Party? Give reasons for the
why Hitler was pattern.
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• Hitler as orator
• different views on
Hitler’s success
• events in the Beer
Hall Putsch, and

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Hitler’s trial and

imprisonment
• reasons why
Germans found
Hitler’s ideas
attractive
• the relationship
between the growth
of Nazism and
unemployment
• the different reasons
why the Nazi part
grew in popularity,
and an exercise to
prioritize these
reasons
• the main points of
the Nazi programme.

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approximately 21 slides.

4. Hitler’s Role in the

Development of the Nazi
Party
This presentation is
designed to teach:
• the ‘Hitler myth’ –
why ordinary
Germans supported
Hitler
• the development of a
totalitarian state and
the need for strong 10 of 12
Hitler would frequently compare himself to Napoleon and
Bismarck. In November 1939 he told a gathering of 200
generals: “I am convinced of my powers of intellect and
decision … the fate of the Reich depends only on me.”
In 1944, after an assassination attempt, Hitler told his
secretaries: “If anything happens to me, Germany is lost
since I have no successor”.
What do these sources tell you about Hitler’s role in
developing the Nazi state?
Does it help explain why so many people were
attracted to him?
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leadership in
Germany
• the significance of
Hitler’s charisma
• the Hitler myth after
World War II.

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approximately 12 slides.

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5. How the Nazis Hitler’s support

Consolidated Power
This presentation is
designed to teach:
• the outcome of
German elections in
1932
• power struggles in
the Reichstag, and
why Hitler became
chancellor
By 1936, Hitler’s power was absolute. The army were
delighted that he had started rebuilding a powerful army
and set up a new air force (the Luftwaffe). Big business
liked the Nazi regime because Hitler had destroyed the
trade unions, leaving business free to multiply their profits.
Germany was blossoming as Hitler had expanded health,
social security and state benefits. New motorways were
built, unemployment was almost wiped out and traffic-free
city centres were established.
“…my mother saw a Storm Trooper parade in the
streets of Heidelburg. The sight of discipline in a time of
chaos, the impression of energy in an atmosphere of
universal hopelessness, seems to have won her over…”
Albert Speer, 1931.

• the Reichstag Fire 19 of 20 © Boardworks Ltd 2003

• the outcome of the

1933 elections
• impact of the
Enabling Law
• organizations used to
maintain authority –
including the SS, the
SD and the Gestapo,
and the purge of the
SA in the Night of
the Long Knives
• how concentration
camps were used to
manage dissent
• an overview of how
Hitler consolidated
power
• a diagram of the
leading figures in the
Nazi party.

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approximately 20 slides.

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6. The Economy under the
Nazis
This presentation is
designed to teach:
• How Hitler managed
How was the reduction in unemployment achieved?
Read the sources. What do they suggest about the ways
Hitler achieved a reduction in unemployment?
“Jews were excluded from the professions, including
teaching, medicine and the law…” Alan Bullock, 1976.

to reduce “There were about one million unemployed as compared

unemployment, with … over two million at the end of 1928. How has Hitler
performed this miracle? He has put them into the army or
including the other kinds of forced service.” Germany Today, 1938.
National Labour
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Labour Front, 3 of 14 © Boardworks Ltd 2003

military service, and

the exclusion of
Jews and women
from unemployment
counts
• autarky and the
Battle for
Production, and their
success
• imports and exports
in Germany.

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approximately 14 slides.

7. Nazi Propaganda
Newspapers only printed favourable stories. Editors had
This presentation is to go to Goebbels every morning to be told what to print.
designed to teach: Goebbels ran the radio stations. He produced cheap
• Goebbels’s role as radio sets – the VE radio cost 76 marks, the DKE cost
only 35 marks (a week’s wages). This meant that
Minister of everyone could hear Hitler’s speeches.
Propaganda Loudspeaker pillars were built in the streets to that
• propaganda people could hear announcements at all times.
• how Goebbels used All cafes had to have their radios turned on for important
propaganda and its programmes.

effectiveness Mass rallies were the most spectacular medium. These

sometimes lasted a whole week.
• Nazi rallies
• Nazi censorship. 6 of 10 © Boardworks Ltd 2003

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approximately 10 slides.

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8. German Society under The Nazi holiday camp
the Nazis Denmark
This presentation is
designed to teach:
• Kinder, Kirche, and
Kurche – the role of
women in Nazi
Germany
• Nazi attitude
towards divorce
• the Nazi church
• the Strength through 13 of 15
Joy programme and
other techniques to
control the workers,
including the
building of Prora and
the VW beetle
scheme.
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approximately 15 slides.
9. The Nazi Youth The Youth Movement
This presentation is
designed to teach:
• the importance of
young Germans to
the Nazi movement
• Nazi Youth
Organizations set up
for boys and girls
• the role of Sport in
Nazi Germany
• whether Nazi
education was 3 of 19
indoctrination.
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approximately 19 slides.
History KS4 Nazi Germany
One of the Nazi’s most
Sweden
ambitious projects was
to develop Prora, a
huge holiday resort on
Prora the Baltic Island of
Rugen. It was one of
Rostock five planned to be built,
Kolberg
Hamburg but the only one started.
It was never finished,
Stettin
due to the war. Work
Berlin began in May 1936 with
48 construction
Frankfurt
Magdeburg
companies, employing
0 kms 100 2000 workers.
What impact do you think this had, both on Nazi
popularity and the economy?
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All young people were supposed to join a Nazi Youth
Movement. Other youth movements, such as the Scouts
and Guides, were banned. Hitler’s organizations taught
them loyalty and military skills.
Age Boys Girls
6–10 The Pimpfen (Little –
Fellows)
10–14 The Jungvolk (The The Jungmadel
Young Folk) (Young Girls)
14–18 The Hitlerjugend The Bund Deutsche
(Hitler Youth) Mädchen (The
German Girls’ League)
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10. Nazi Ideas on Race and The Aryan ideal – the consequences
Religion
The main victims of the Aryan theory were the Jews. Other
Germans were told that Jews were inferior. All Germany’s
This presentation is problems were blamed on the Jews. Eventually people
began to believe the propaganda.
designed to teach:
Children were taught to hate Jews at school. Jewish
• Hitler’s belief in an students were regularly stood in the corner and ridiculed.
Aryan race, and how Eventually, they were banned from attending school.
hatred of the Jews One of the methods supposed
was disseminated to tell whether or not someone Size of nose
was Jewish was by measuring is measured
throughout Germany their facial features, often using Nose
• laws passed by the a vernier.
Vernier
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• Jewish persecution,
including classifying
Nazi laws and
actions, the
Nuremburg Laws
and Kristallnacht
• the Nazi church.

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approximately 14 slides.

11. The Holocaust Plan of Birkenau death camp

This presentation is
designed to teach:
Pits for burning bodies
Why could the Jews
not escape?
Why was the men’s Gas chambers New camp being built

• the background to camp larger than the

women’s camp?
the prejudice against Canada
SS barracks

Jews Women were more

• Hitler’s hatred of likely to be gassed on
arrival than the men
Men’s camp

Jews who would have to

Railway

work.
• concentration camps
and ghettos
Women’s camp
Electric fence
What happened to the
Canada were huts where Jewish possessions
• the Final Solution Jews’ possessions?
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were taken, sorted and dispatched to Germany
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• what happened in
concentration camps
• how Germans
rationalized the
murders, and how
far ordinary
Germans knew what
was happening

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• the death toll

• Jewish resistance
• the name
‘Holocaust’.

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approximately 32 slides.

12. The Development of The Rhineland

the Totalitarian State
River
Rhine

This presentation is Germany

designed to teach:
• the decline of
France
cabinet government The Rhineland
and the The Treaty of Versailles forbade the German army from
centralization of being within 50 kilometres of the River Rhine. In 1926,
Britain and France agreed to use their armies if German
power troops moved into this area. Yet in 1936, Hitler ordered his
• the Nazi police state army to march into the Rhineland.
Hitler had only 30,000 fully equipped troops.
• Hitler’s foreign What should the Allies do?
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• rearmament
• relations with other
European countries
• the annexation of
Austria
• the Munich
Conference and the
Nazi-Soviet Pact
• the start of World
War II.

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approximately 25 slides.

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13. Hitler - Strategist Who won the Battle of Britain?

350
This presentation is 300

Planes Destroyed
designed to teach: 250

• Hitler’s domestic 200

150
British losses
German losses
production policies 100
during World War II 50

• Hitler’s strategies 0

August

September

October
October
September
1-15 July

August

August
16-31

16-31

16-31
1-15
during Dunkirk,

1-15
16-30
1-15
including source
material When were the most planes destroyed?
• Hitler’s strategy Who lost the most planes?
during the Battle of Do you think the Battle of Britain was a success
for the Germans? Explain.
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• Hitler’s strategy
during Operation
Barbarossa
• Throughout the
presentation
questions prompt the
student to evaluate
Hitler’s strategy and
answer the question
“Was Hitler a good
strategist?”.

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approximately 22 slides.

14. The Collapse of

Nazism
“You’ve spent years in military academies, and all you’ve
learned is how to hold a knife and fork! But you
This presentation is understand nothing! – nothing about the job of soldiering! I
designed to teach: didn’t go to military academy, but I read Clausewitz and
Moltke! I didn’t even go to cadet school, but single
• how and why handed, I conquered Europe and all of Russia! And now
Hitler’s grasp on you dare to disobey!”

reality weakened What does this source tell you about how close Hitler
• the events of the was to reality by this time? Do you think Steiner was
Generals’ Plot right to disobey Hitler’s orders?

• events at the close of

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approximately 14 slides. It
includes one Flash activity:
• an interactive map
showing the extent
of Germany’s land
gains and losses
during World War
II.

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