1. Nazi policies towards women were contraditory.
How far do you agree with this statement?

2. Homework – due Monday 16th March
Read the chapter and answer...
What does Kershaw believe ‘the Hitler myth’ was?
Nazis kept control through manufacturing the myth of Hitler as a Fuhrer and promoting his popularity
How does he believe ‘the Hitler myth’ was created?
through propaganda, the image of Hitler and the successes of WWII.
Write facts that support these statements from everything you have done so far on Nazi Germany from 1933.
The German public consented to the Nazi dictatorship.
The German public opposed the Nazi dictatorship.
Nazi Germany was controlled through terror and repression.
Hitler was in complete control of Nazi Germany.
Hitler was not in complete control of Nazi Germany.

3. How far did the German public consent to the Nazi dictatorship?
Opposition
With youth and other topics

4. How much terror and repression was there in Nazi Germany?

5. How far was Hitler in complete control from 1933 to 1945?

6. What do you think is happening in this photograph?
How far did the churches collaborate with the Nazi regime? C aim – to explain both sides and a judgement B/A aim – to explain both sides in detail with a fully justified conclusion
What do you think is happening in this photograph?

7. The Concordat and the two popes
Hitler and the Pope signed a Concordat in 1933 – shortly after Hitler got into power.
Hitler agreed to leave the Catholic Church alone and let it keep running Catholic schools. In return the pope agreed to keep out of German politics.
Read p. 310 Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII
Source and p. 313
Make two subheadings on your paper...
The churches collaborated –
The churches didn’t collaborate –
Add points to your subheading.

8. Reich Church
P. 307

9. German Christians – Muller
P. 307 and 310
Source 16.18

10. How did this occur despite the apparent contradiction between Nazi ideology and practises and religious values?

11. P. 307
Photograph of a non-Christian parade called the German Faith Movement which Hitler encouraged.

12. Niemoller and the Confessional Church
Niemoller openly criticised the Nazis in the 1930s. He formed an alternative Protestant Church which didn’t support them called the Confessional Church. For speaking out against the Nazis and forming this alternative church he was sent to a concentration camp from He survived.
First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the socialists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.
Niemoller and the Confessional Church
Source and p. 313, p. 311

13. Galen
P. 311

14. Bonhoffer
P. 311

15. How far did the churches collaborate with the Nazi regime?

16. Consent?
Opposition?
Terror?
Repression?

17. Homework
Green book pp