History Help - 2.11.16

Evaluating primary sources

• Strengths/weaknesses

- Author

- Time

- Motivations

- Intended message

- Context

- Propaganda

- Purpose

- Bias (all biased)

Conclusions

• Summary
• Write first?
• Reinforces and summarises argument
• Nothing new
• Reference previous points
• Reach judgement

Historians

• Use life for

- Motivations

- Context

Not narrating

• Keep linking back to question 
• Keep explanations brief - use to highlight/ back up points
• Paraphrase historians rather than quote

Proof reading

• Always ask yourself - Is it relevant to the question?

German Anti-Semitism (Kershaw)

German anti-Semitism 1918-1933

Holocaust deniers

Jewish suffering in numbers

Holocaust not just jews

Unknown...

1

• Volksgemeinshaft
• Equality (only for Germans)
• Non-Germans as aliens

2

• Rallies
• Failed Weimar Republic
• Treaty of Versailles
• Depression 1929-32 (1924-9 appear to do better)

3

• Reichstag fire - Hitler uses it as an excuse to clamp down
• Book burning
• Hitler youth - Hitler cult
• Mother's cross award and loans
• Autobannen
• Final solution 1942
• Holocaust
• KDF - Volkswagen - holidays
• Anschluss - 1938 unite Austria and Germany
• Olympics 1936 - Jesse Owens
• Olympia - propaganda - The triumph of the will
• 3Ks - Kinder, kirche, kuche