LIFE IN NAZI
GERMANY
History Paper 2B
,History: Life in Nazi Germany 1933-1945
Teacher’s guide: https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/311760-life-in-nazi-
germany-1933-1945-teachers-guide.pdf
Dictatorship
• Hitler and the Nazi Party in January 1933
• Establishing the dictatorship, January 1933 to July 1933
• Achieving total power, July 1933 to August 1934
Control and Opposition, 1933–1939
• The machinery of terror including the SS, the law courts,
concentration camps and the Gestapo
• The range and effectiveness of Nazi propaganda
• Opposition to Nazi rule including the Left, church leaders and
youth groups
Changing Lives, 1933–1939
• Work and home: the impact of Nazi policies on men and women
• The lives of young people in Nazi Germany including education
and youth movements
• Nazi racial policy: the growing persecution of Jews
Germany in War
• The move to a war economy and its impact on the German
people, 1939–1942
• Growing opposition from the German people including from
elements within the army
• The impact of total war on the German people, 1943–1945
Occupation
• The contrasting nature of Nazi rule in eastern and western Europe
• The Holocaust, including the Einsatzgruppen, ghettos and the
death camps
• Responses to Nazi rule: collaboration, accommodation and
resistance
,Date Event
1919 Nazi Party formed
1923 Munich Putsch
1924 Mein Kampf written
1928 12 seats in Reichstag
1929 Wall Street Crash
1932 Won Reichstag elections
193 Jan Hitler became chancellor
3
Feb Reichstag Fire
Reichstag Fire Decree
Mar Election
Enabling Act
Apr Civil Service Act
May Trade Unions raided
June Köpernick week of blood
July Act to ban new parties
1934 Länder removed; Gauleiters appointed
The People’s Court set up
Night of the Long Knives
Hitler became Führer (August)
Nuremberg rally
1935 Nuremberg Laws
1936 The police put under control of the SS
Berlin Olympics
Hitler Youth made compulsory
1938 Kristallnacht
Austria invaded
1939 Church schools closed
Poland invaded
Rationing began
1940 The Netherlands invaded
1942 Albert Speer appointed
Wansee Conference
1943 First defeat at Stalingrad
Total War announced
RAF intensified bombings, including Berlin
bombings
1944 July Bomb Plot
Volkssturm created
, Dictatorship
How did the Nazis take control of Germany so quickly?
Hitler and the Nazi Party in 1933
Leading Nazis:
Adolf Hitler Leader of the Nazis, Chancellor of
Germany
Rudolf Hess Deputy leader
Hermann Göring Head of the Gestapo
Ernst Rohm Head of the SA
Heinrich Himmler Head of the SS
Reinhard Heydrich Head of the SD
Wilhelm Frick Minister of the Interior
Joseph Goebbels Head of Propaganda
Nazi policies:
o Lebensraum
“Living space” for Germans; planned to take parts of eastern Europe
o Anti-Semitism
Believed Jewish people were “racially inferior” and “sub-human”;
acted as scapegoats for Germany’s economic problems, benefitting
at the expense of the poor
o Aryan strength
Believed northern Europeans were “racially superior” and “super-
human”; should rule Germany and get rid of non-Aryans, particularly
Jewish people
o Anti-Communism
Nazis were right-wing and against leftist ideas such as Marxism and
Communism; believed they needed to be subdued. The Communist
Revolution in 1917 created tension.
o Fuhrerprinzip
“leader principle”
o Strong central government
Allows the Nazi government to control their people through a
totalitarian government
o Arbeit und brot
“Work and bread” - promised necessities to the Germany poor to
alleviate them from economic problems
o Scrap the Treaty of Versailles
GERMANY
History Paper 2B
,History: Life in Nazi Germany 1933-1945
Teacher’s guide: https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/311760-life-in-nazi-
germany-1933-1945-teachers-guide.pdf
Dictatorship
• Hitler and the Nazi Party in January 1933
• Establishing the dictatorship, January 1933 to July 1933
• Achieving total power, July 1933 to August 1934
Control and Opposition, 1933–1939
• The machinery of terror including the SS, the law courts,
concentration camps and the Gestapo
• The range and effectiveness of Nazi propaganda
• Opposition to Nazi rule including the Left, church leaders and
youth groups
Changing Lives, 1933–1939
• Work and home: the impact of Nazi policies on men and women
• The lives of young people in Nazi Germany including education
and youth movements
• Nazi racial policy: the growing persecution of Jews
Germany in War
• The move to a war economy and its impact on the German
people, 1939–1942
• Growing opposition from the German people including from
elements within the army
• The impact of total war on the German people, 1943–1945
Occupation
• The contrasting nature of Nazi rule in eastern and western Europe
• The Holocaust, including the Einsatzgruppen, ghettos and the
death camps
• Responses to Nazi rule: collaboration, accommodation and
resistance
,Date Event
1919 Nazi Party formed
1923 Munich Putsch
1924 Mein Kampf written
1928 12 seats in Reichstag
1929 Wall Street Crash
1932 Won Reichstag elections
193 Jan Hitler became chancellor
3
Feb Reichstag Fire
Reichstag Fire Decree
Mar Election
Enabling Act
Apr Civil Service Act
May Trade Unions raided
June Köpernick week of blood
July Act to ban new parties
1934 Länder removed; Gauleiters appointed
The People’s Court set up
Night of the Long Knives
Hitler became Führer (August)
Nuremberg rally
1935 Nuremberg Laws
1936 The police put under control of the SS
Berlin Olympics
Hitler Youth made compulsory
1938 Kristallnacht
Austria invaded
1939 Church schools closed
Poland invaded
Rationing began
1940 The Netherlands invaded
1942 Albert Speer appointed
Wansee Conference
1943 First defeat at Stalingrad
Total War announced
RAF intensified bombings, including Berlin
bombings
1944 July Bomb Plot
Volkssturm created
, Dictatorship
How did the Nazis take control of Germany so quickly?
Hitler and the Nazi Party in 1933
Leading Nazis:
Adolf Hitler Leader of the Nazis, Chancellor of
Germany
Rudolf Hess Deputy leader
Hermann Göring Head of the Gestapo
Ernst Rohm Head of the SA
Heinrich Himmler Head of the SS
Reinhard Heydrich Head of the SD
Wilhelm Frick Minister of the Interior
Joseph Goebbels Head of Propaganda
Nazi policies:
o Lebensraum
“Living space” for Germans; planned to take parts of eastern Europe
o Anti-Semitism
Believed Jewish people were “racially inferior” and “sub-human”;
acted as scapegoats for Germany’s economic problems, benefitting
at the expense of the poor
o Aryan strength
Believed northern Europeans were “racially superior” and “super-
human”; should rule Germany and get rid of non-Aryans, particularly
Jewish people
o Anti-Communism
Nazis were right-wing and against leftist ideas such as Marxism and
Communism; believed they needed to be subdued. The Communist
Revolution in 1917 created tension.
o Fuhrerprinzip
“leader principle”
o Strong central government
Allows the Nazi government to control their people through a
totalitarian government
o Arbeit und brot
“Work and bread” - promised necessities to the Germany poor to
alleviate them from economic problems
o Scrap the Treaty of Versailles
