Examiner’s Specific Advice

This question is testing your knowledge and your ability to communicate it effectively. There is no source material involved. You are required to explain motives in introducing a particular event, the formation of the Labour Front. You are not expected to find many motives, but you should certainly find two or three. Therefore the question requires no more than a ‘mini-essay’ of probably two or three paragraphs at most, certainly not a full-length essay. You should aim to give a brief explanation for each motive. A high-level answer might include a brief summary and possibly a conclusion tying the motives together, identifying different types of motive (e.g. political, economic etc.) or deciding whether one motive was more important than others.

The examiner is not looking for sophisticated interpretations, but brief, clear explanations.

Exemplar Question

2 (03)Explain why the Nazis created the German Labour Front. [12 marks]

Plan

• Background:
• Nazi rise to power
• Nazi hostility to organised labour and its political associations
• Nazi policy of Gleichschaltung
• Need for a compliant work force
• Longer-term objectives

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