OCR – AS GCE European and World History Enquiries Unit F964: Modern

Unit 2 Dictatorship and Democracy in Germany, 1933–63

Teaching Activities


Using the sources in the question on Nazi Propaganda:

  1. Divide the class into four different groups. Set each group the task of researching as much background as they can find about each source. The checklist of Who? What? Where? will provide a good set of tools for analysis.
  2. Ask students to present their findings to each other; ask for a short written handout from each group as well as an oral presentation. Once a presentation has been made, questions and discussion can occur.
  3. Consider the proposition that is in part (b) as a class, using the work done on each source. The group might be divided again, this time in two, to consider arguments for Nazi control of propaganda being complete and those against. A further variation would be to debate the differences which war made; the question in the example only covers up to 1939. What would need to be considered if the question included up to 1945 or just from 1939 to 1943?

Using the Chronology:

  1. Consider how the major events listed affected the regime’s use of propaganda.