OCR GCSE History A (Explaining the Modern World) Period study with non-British depth study: International relations 1918-2001 + Germany 1925-1955: the people and the state November 2021 question paper J410/02

Describe one effect of the Second World War on the German people.

Why did racial persecution increase in Germany after 1939?

Explain how the Nazis persuaded girls and women to fulfil traditional roles in the 1930s.

Study Sources A and B. How far do these sources agree?

Source A

The first concentration camp will be opened on Wednesday, near Dachau. It has a capacity of 5000 people. All of the communists, who threaten the security of the state, will be assembled here. Leaving individual communists in the courthouse jails is not possible for the long term without putting too much strain on the state.

An extract from a statement given to the media by Heinrich Himmler on the opening of Dachau concentration camp, 20 March 1933.

Source B

Through laws, through regulations, and other such things, we can destroy communism’s external organisation. But that is only external. The state, the police, the government can only deal with the external forms. You, however, must smash and destroy the idea of communism.

An extract from a speech given by Hermann Göring to Nazi supporters on 9 April 1933.

5* ‘The Weimar Republic collapsed in 1933 because the government was not able to deal with the economic crisis which began in 1929.’

How far do you agree?