AQA
A-level
HISTORY
7042/2O
Component 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–
1945
Version: 1.0 Final
,A-level
HISTORY
Component 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
Friday 9 June 2023 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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, 2
Section A
Answer Question 01.
Source A
From the diary of Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, 10/11 November 1938.
Goebbels kept this private diary with the intention of publishing it at a later date.
Ernst vom Rath’s death is reported; now everything is ready. I bring the matter to the
Führer. He decides: let the demonstrations go on, withdraw the police. The Jews should
get to feel the anger of the people. Some cowards hesitate but I keep pushing on; we
cannot leave unanswered this murder. Messages are now coming in from all over the
Reich: 50, then 75 synagogues are on fire. The Führer has ordered that 30 000 Jews be 5
arrested immediately. They should see our patience is exhausted. Now the people’s
anger is raging. Bravo! Bravo!
As expected, the whole nation is in turmoil. However, if we let this go on then there is a
danger that the mob will appear. The Führer agrees that the actions must stop but they
will have to repair their shops themselves; the insurers will pay them nothing. Then the 10
Führer wants to gradually take over the Jewish businesses. We are now awaiting the
effects abroad. Silence for now but the noise surely will come.
Source B
From a report, sent to the US government, by the American Consul in Leipzig, Germany,
21 November 1938.
The violation of Jewish property which began on 10 November 1938, was subsequently
hailed in the Nazi press as a ‘spontaneous wave of righteous indignation’. As far as most
of the German population is concerned, such indignation is non-existent. On the
contrary, all of the local crowds observed were obviously horrified by the unprecedented
fury of the Nazi acts. Three synagogues in Leipzig were fired and silent and bewildered 5
crowds come to view their blackened frames. The Nazis threw some trembling Jews into
a stream, commanding horrified spectators to spit at them and jeer at their plight. This
has been corroborated by several German witnesses, sickened at telling the tale. The
slightest show of sympathy evoked a positive fury from the perpetrators, and the crowd
was powerless. This consulate has been a frenzied centre of humanity for the past 10
10 days. Victims with bloody, badly-bruised faces and many desperate Jewish women,
whose husbands and sons have been taken off, have fled here, seeking to emigrate.
IB/M/Jun23/7042/2O
A-level
HISTORY
7042/2O
Component 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–
1945
Version: 1.0 Final
,A-level
HISTORY
Component 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
Friday 9 June 2023 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.
IB/M/Jun23/E5 7042/2O
, 2
Section A
Answer Question 01.
Source A
From the diary of Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, 10/11 November 1938.
Goebbels kept this private diary with the intention of publishing it at a later date.
Ernst vom Rath’s death is reported; now everything is ready. I bring the matter to the
Führer. He decides: let the demonstrations go on, withdraw the police. The Jews should
get to feel the anger of the people. Some cowards hesitate but I keep pushing on; we
cannot leave unanswered this murder. Messages are now coming in from all over the
Reich: 50, then 75 synagogues are on fire. The Führer has ordered that 30 000 Jews be 5
arrested immediately. They should see our patience is exhausted. Now the people’s
anger is raging. Bravo! Bravo!
As expected, the whole nation is in turmoil. However, if we let this go on then there is a
danger that the mob will appear. The Führer agrees that the actions must stop but they
will have to repair their shops themselves; the insurers will pay them nothing. Then the 10
Führer wants to gradually take over the Jewish businesses. We are now awaiting the
effects abroad. Silence for now but the noise surely will come.
Source B
From a report, sent to the US government, by the American Consul in Leipzig, Germany,
21 November 1938.
The violation of Jewish property which began on 10 November 1938, was subsequently
hailed in the Nazi press as a ‘spontaneous wave of righteous indignation’. As far as most
of the German population is concerned, such indignation is non-existent. On the
contrary, all of the local crowds observed were obviously horrified by the unprecedented
fury of the Nazi acts. Three synagogues in Leipzig were fired and silent and bewildered 5
crowds come to view their blackened frames. The Nazis threw some trembling Jews into
a stream, commanding horrified spectators to spit at them and jeer at their plight. This
has been corroborated by several German witnesses, sickened at telling the tale. The
slightest show of sympathy evoked a positive fury from the perpetrators, and the crowd
was powerless. This consulate has been a frenzied centre of humanity for the past 10
10 days. Victims with bloody, badly-bruised faces and many desperate Jewish women,
whose husbands and sons have been taken off, have fled here, seeking to emigrate.
IB/M/Jun23/7042/2O
