A level History

My Revision Notes AS AQA History: Life in Nazi Germany, 1933–45

Section 1: The Nazi consolidation of power, 1933–34

• Coming to power, January 1933
• Nazi ideology
• Creating a dictatorship
• Terror and the destruction of the opposition
• The appearance of moderation
• Co-ordination

Section 2: Nazi propaganda and mass indoctrination

• The organisation of propaganda
• Methods of propaganda (1)
• Methods of propaganda (2)
• The 'Führer Myth'
• Propaganda and the Nazi 'economic miracle'

Section 3: Nazi organisations and the co-ordination of German society

• Schools and universities
• The Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens
• Workers
• Peasants and farmers
• The Churches
• The security services: the SS, SD and Gestapo
• Conformity and resistance by 1939

Section 4: The impact of the war on the German people, 1939–45

• Changes in attitudes and daily lives, 1939–41
• The invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941–42
• Mass bombings and military defeats, 1943–45
• Germany in 1945
• The impact of 'total war' on the Nazi regime
• The impact of the invasion of the USSR and 'total war' on Nazi propaganda
• Opposition during wartime
• The impact on the people of military defeat and 'total war'