CONTENTS	6
	SERIES PREFACE	7
	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	8
	1 THE RISE OF NAZISM	11
	BACKGROUND NARRATIVE	11
	ANALYSIS (1): WHAT WAS NATIONAL SOCIALISM?	12
	Questions	14
	ANALYSIS (2): WHY DID HITLER COME TO POWER IN 1933?	15
	Questions	19
	SOURCES	19
	1. THE IDEOLOGY AND PROGRAMME OF NAZISM	19
	Source A: from the Programme of the German Workers’ Party, February 1920.	19
	Source B: from a speech by Hitler on 13 April 1923.	20
	Source C: from Hitler’s Mein Kampf.	20
	Source D: Otto Strasser’s recollection of a conversation with Hitler (published in 1940).	20
	Source E: from a speech by Hitler at an election meeting in March 1928.	21
	ublished in 1940). ...	21
	Questions	21
	SOURCES	22
	2. THE BASE OF HITLER’S SUPPORT BEFORE 1933	22
	Source G: Reichstag election results 1928–32 (number of seats).	22
	Source H: the social origins of members of the SA between 1925 and 1933.	23
	Source I: the social composition of the part of the electorate voting for the NSDAP (%).	23
	Source J: a confidential analysis, prepared by the KPD of the rise in support for the NSDAP (1931).	24
	Source K: from the application form of a recruit to the SA.	24
	Questions	24
	2 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DICTATORSHIP	26
	BACKGROUND NARRATIVE	26
	ANALYSIS (1): HOW ‘LEGAL’ WAS THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION BETWEEN 1933 AND 1934?	27
	Questions	29
	ANALYSIS (2): HOW EFFECTIVE WAS THE NAZI POLITICAL REVOLUTION?	30
	Questions	32
	SOURCES	32
	1. THE LEGAL REVOLUTION	32
	Source A: an extract from the Constitution of the Weimar Republic, 11 August 1919.	32
	Source B: from the Law for Terminating the Suffering of the People and Nation, 24 March 1933.	33
	Source C: the Law Against the New Formation of Parties, 14 July 1933.	33
	Source D: Law Concerning the Head of the German State, 1 August 1934.	33
	Source E: from a newspaper article by Ernst Rohm, June 1933.	34
	Source F: from the Prosecutor’s speech at the Nuremberg Trial 1946.	34
	Questions	34
	SOURCES	35
	2. THE FUNCTIONING OF POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN NAZI GERMANY	35
	Source G: from a communication from the Minister of the Interior to the Chancellor, 4 June 1934.	35
	Source H: from a communication between the Chancellor and the Minister of the Interior, 1934.	35
	e, to a meeting of state agricultural representatives, February 1934. ...	35
	r, Walter Sommer, was a civil servant in the Department for Affairs of State. ...	36
	Source K: from the Memoirs of Otto Dietrich, Hitler’s press chief	37
	Questions	37
	3 INDOCTRINATION, PROPAGANDA AND TERROR	39
	BACKGROUND NARRATIVE	39
	ANALYSIS (1): HOW EFFECTIVE WERE INDOCTRINATION AND PROPAGANDA?	40
	Questions	44
	ANALYSIS (2): HOW FAR WAS THE NAZI REGIME DOMINATED BY THE SS STRUCTURE?	44
	Questions	47
	SOURCES	47
	1. THE ORGANIZATION OF PROPAGANDA	47
	Source A: from a speech by Goebbels, 15 March 1933.	47
	Source B: Goebbels speaking to a meeting of radio officials on 25 March 1933.	48
	Source C: from the local paper in Neu-lsenberg near Frankfurt, 16 March 1934.	48
	Source D: from official instructions issued at the daily press conferences in the Propaganda Ministry.	48
	1933. ...	49
	Source F: from an article in the Daily Express, written by David Lloyd George, 17 November 1936.	49
	Questions	49
	SOURCES	50
	2. THE SECURITY SYSTEM OF THE SS	50
	Source G: from the Volkischer Beobachter (Munich Observer), 27 January 1936.	50
	Source H: Heydrich on his promotion to Himmler’s deputy, 1933:	50
	1935. ...	51
	Source J: Heydrich’s attitude to the SS, as described by his wife during the 1950s.	51
	was to control the police, 17 June 1936. ...	52
	Source L: from a speech by Himmler to SS leaders in Posen, 4 October 1943.	52
	Questions	52
	4 SUPPORT AND OPPOSITION	54
	ANALYSIS (1): HOW EXTENSIVE WAS THE SUPPORT FOR HITLER AND NAZISM?	54
	Questions	58
	ANALYSIS (2): WHAT WAS THE EXTENT OF THE OPPOSITION TO HITLER’S REGIME?	58
	Questions	62
	SOURCES	62
	1. POPULAR SUPPORT?	62
	Source A: an extract from Mein Kampf.	62
	, published in 1936. ...	63
	Source C: from a report by SOPADE, 1934.	63
	Source D: from a report by SOPADE, 1935.	63
	Source E: from a report by SOPADE, 1935.	63
	Questions	64
	SOURCES	65
	2. CATHOLIC OPPOSITION?	65
	Source F: a public statement made by Bishop Berning, 21 September 1933.	65
	Source G: from an official report, 1937.	65
	Source H: from the Papal Encyclical With Burning Anxiety, 14 March 1937.	65
	Source I: Cardinal Galen’s protest against police measures, 13 July 1941.	66
	Source J: from a letter sent by the Bishop of Limburg to the Minister of Justice, 13 August 1941.	66
	Source K: Bishop Wurm to the Head of Hitler’s Chancellery, 20 December 1943.	67
	Source L: from a sermon given by Bishop Galen in 1944.	67
	Questions	67
	5 THE NAZI ECONOMY	69
	BACKGROUND NARRATIVE	69
	ANALYSIS (1): HOW DID HITLER’S ECONOMIC POLICIES RELATE TO HIS SCHEMES FOR TERRITORIAL EXPANSION?	70
	Questions	74
	ECONOMIC POLICIES? ...	74
	Questions	76
	SOURCES	77
	1. STATISTICS OF THE GERMAN ECONOMY	77
	Source A: unemployment figures 1928–39.	77
	Source B: imports and exports 1925–35 (million marks, current prices).	77
	Source C: index of wages (1936=100).	77
	Source D: national income (million marks).	78
	Source E: wages as a percentage of national income.	78
	Source F: index of industrial and consumer goods (1928=100).	78
	Source G: Comparative military expenditure: Germany and Britain (% of GNP).	79
	Questions	79
	SOURCES	80
	2. THE FOUR YEAR PLAN	80
	Source H: extracts from Hitler’s announcement of the Four Year Plan (1936).	80
	ar Plan by Goering. ...	80
	Source J: from a speech given by Goering to German industrialists on 17 December 1936.	81
	Source K: from an analysis in a report produced by SOPADE (the Social Democratic Party in exile).	81
	d tons). ...	82
	Questions	82
	6 RACE, THE HOLOCAUST AND THE JEWISH RESPONSE	84
	BACKGROUND NARRATIVE	84
	ANALYSIS (1): WHAT ROLE DID RACE PLAY IN THE NAZI SYSTEM?	85
	Questions	88
	ANALYSIS (2): WHAT WAS THE GENESIS OF THE HOLOCAUST?	88
	Questions	92
	ANALYSIS (3): HOW DID JEWS REACT TO PERSECUTION?	92
	Questions	94
	SOURCES	94
	Questions	96
	7 FOREIGN POLICY AND WAR	98
	BACKGROUND NARRATIVE	98
	ANALYSIS (1): HOW ‘INTENTIONAL’ WAS HITLER’S FOREIGN POLICY?	99
	Questions	102
	ANALYSIS (2): DID HITLER CONTROL THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR?	102
	Questions	105
	SOURCES	105
	1. PEACE OR WAR?	105
	between Hitler and the chiefs of German staff, 5 November 1937. ...	105
	Source B: extracts from a reported conversation between Hitler and Lord Halifax on 19 November 1937.	106
	November 1938. ...	107
	Questions	107
	SOURCES	108
	2. WHAT TYPE OF WAR?	108
	vy, arguing for a rapid offensive against the west. ...	108
	Source E: from Hitler’s military directive for the invasion of Russia.	108
	ry 1942. ...	109
	ssolini on 29 April 1942. ...	109
	Source H: from an account of Hitler’s discussion with Mussolini, 22 April 1944.	109
	Questions	110
	NOTES AND SOURCES	111
	SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY	117
	INDEX	118
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