1. How did culture change in Weimar Germany?

2. Learning objective – to be able to explain the cultural shift in Germany in the 1920s.
I can describe the key features of the cultural shift in 1920s Germany.
Grade 6
I can explain how culture changed in 1920s Germany.
Grade 3
I can explain and assess the impact of the cultural shift in 1920s Germany.
Grade 1

10. Task
In bullet points, list the ways housing, wages, unemployment insurance and the position of women changed in the 1920s.
Which development - housing, wages, unemployment insurance or the position of women - showed the most significant change? Explain your answer.

11. Evidence for a golden age Evidence against a golden age
Task
Complete the table below comparing the evidence for and the evidence against the idea that the 1924 to 1929 period was a golden era for Germany.
Evidence for a golden age
Evidence against a golden age
Wages
Housing
Unemployment
Women
Culture

12. Task
Cut out the source below and stick it into your exercise book. Annotate the source applying your own knowledge.
Source A
Our faces are encrusted, our thoughts are devastated, we are weary to death; when the attack comes we have to strike many of the men with our fists to waken them and make them come with us – our eyes are burnt, our hands are torn, our knees bleed, our elbows are raw. How long has this been? Weeks – months – years? Only days. We see time pass in the colourless faces of the dying.
From All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, published in 1929.