2025 AQA A-Level HISTORY 7042/2O
Component 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
Question paper and Marking scheme Merged
A-level
HISTORY
Component 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
Friday 6 June 2025 Afternoon Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
• an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
• Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7042/2O.
• Answer three questions.
In Section A answer Question 01.
In Section B answer two questions.
Information
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• The maximum mark for this paper is 80.
• You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
• You are advised to spend about:
– 1 hour on Question 01 from Section A
– 45 minutes on each of the two questions answered from Section B.
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Section A
Answer Question 01.
Source A
From the ‘Law on the Hitler Youth’, written by von Schirach, the Reich Leader of German
Youth, 1 December 1936. It was signed into law by Hitler.
The future of the German Nation depends upon its youth, and German youth shall have
to be prepared for its future duties. Therefore, the Government of the Reich has
prepared the following law:
1. All of the German youth in the Reich shall be organised within the Hitler Youth.
2. The German youth, besides being reared within the family and school, shall be 5
educated physically, intellectually, and morally in the spirit of National Socialism to
serve the people and community, through the Hitler Youth.
3. The task of educating the German youth through the Hitler Youth has been given to the
Reich Leader of German Youth in the NSDAP. The position of his office is that of a
higher governmental agency with its seat in Berlin, directly responsible to the Führer 10
and the Chancellor of the Reich.
4. All regulations necessary for the execution and completion of this law will be issued by
the Führer.
Source B
From the memoir, ‘The Men with the Pink Triangle’, by Heinz Heger, published 1972.
Heger was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1939 because he was
homosexual.
Source B cannot be reproduced here due to third-party copyright restrictions
Source B lists the victims of Nazi racial ideology and describes the nature of
persecution as leading to extermination, by brutal treatment.
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Source C
From a church sermon by Bishop von Galen, August 1941. Galen was the Bishop of
Münster and later became a Cardinal in the Catholic Church.
Source C cannot be reproduced here due to third-party copyright restrictions
Source C refers to the Aktion T-4 programme of euthanasia that began in 1939 and
Galen appeals for this programme to be stopped on the basis that it breaches the
law.
0 1 With reference to these sources and your understanding of the historical context,
assess the value of these three sources to an historian studying the radicalisation of
the German state in the years 1936 to 1941.
[30 marks]
Turn over for Section B
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Component 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
Question paper and Marking scheme Merged
A-level
HISTORY
Component 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
Friday 6 June 2025 Afternoon Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
• an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
• Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7042/2O.
• Answer three questions.
In Section A answer Question 01.
In Section B answer two questions.
Information
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• The maximum mark for this paper is 80.
• You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
• You are advised to spend about:
– 1 hour on Question 01 from Section A
– 45 minutes on each of the two questions answered from Section B.
, 2
Section A
Answer Question 01.
Source A
From the ‘Law on the Hitler Youth’, written by von Schirach, the Reich Leader of German
Youth, 1 December 1936. It was signed into law by Hitler.
The future of the German Nation depends upon its youth, and German youth shall have
to be prepared for its future duties. Therefore, the Government of the Reich has
prepared the following law:
1. All of the German youth in the Reich shall be organised within the Hitler Youth.
2. The German youth, besides being reared within the family and school, shall be 5
educated physically, intellectually, and morally in the spirit of National Socialism to
serve the people and community, through the Hitler Youth.
3. The task of educating the German youth through the Hitler Youth has been given to the
Reich Leader of German Youth in the NSDAP. The position of his office is that of a
higher governmental agency with its seat in Berlin, directly responsible to the Führer 10
and the Chancellor of the Reich.
4. All regulations necessary for the execution and completion of this law will be issued by
the Führer.
Source B
From the memoir, ‘The Men with the Pink Triangle’, by Heinz Heger, published 1972.
Heger was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1939 because he was
homosexual.
Source B cannot be reproduced here due to third-party copyright restrictions
Source B lists the victims of Nazi racial ideology and describes the nature of
persecution as leading to extermination, by brutal treatment.
IB/M/Jun25/7042/2O
, 3
Source C
From a church sermon by Bishop von Galen, August 1941. Galen was the Bishop of
Münster and later became a Cardinal in the Catholic Church.
Source C cannot be reproduced here due to third-party copyright restrictions
Source C refers to the Aktion T-4 programme of euthanasia that began in 1939 and
Galen appeals for this programme to be stopped on the basis that it breaches the
law.
0 1 With reference to these sources and your understanding of the historical context,
assess the value of these three sources to an historian studying the radicalisation of
the German state in the years 1936 to 1941.
[30 marks]
Turn over for Section B
IB/M/Jun25/7042/2O Turn over ►
