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Edexcel: From kaiser to fuhrer 1900-1945, his03/d exam friday 10th june 2016

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Hey guys,

How would you answer this question:
"The main threat to the stability of the Weimar Republic in the period 1919-1923 came from the political violence of the extreme right"

What points would you make for this question?

I'd talk about the assassinations particularly about Rathenau and the reaction. Also compare it to RW uprisings such as Munich and Kapp putsch.

Compare to Left wing; Spartacists, Red Bavaria, 1920 Ruhr, 1921 Merseburg, 1923 Major Strike wave.

Also compare possibly to the lack of reform within the Judiciary and Army and how this caused things to be undermined within the constitution (Fechenback, LW secretary to Eisner getting 11 years for violating press law, compared to Hitler getting 5 for treason - lack of control over those two groups.)

That's how I'd do it anyway. Good luck today!

Reply 661

Kattkin

Good luck guys! Hopefully we'll get into uni.... :biggrin:

Reply 662

AJC1997

when you see through the exam paper before it starts and you see the dates 1900-1914 and 1939-1945 with opposition and realise nothing on the Weimar Republic or Final Solution came up :frown:

but the exam was still ok

Reply 663

jono__.__

How did everyones go? I did the democracy question, thought it was quite nice

Dreaaaaam paper 😍

Woohooo!

Best paper ever, I did the opposition and WW1 Qs.

:biggrin:

What did everyone else do?

Reply 666

grassntai

the exam went great. i hope the grade boundaries are low lol

Reply 667

XiuXiu

on question 1 I decided to go a little out the box and did paragraphs on how terror and propaganda weakened opposition and put all the useless opposition (youth, left, church) into one paragraph instead of doing a separate paragraph for each, hope that ok

question 2 wasn't very nice even though it really should have been. I mostly just went on about how wrong source A was, but I rambled a bit and dint use enough examples

edit: that said, I only need a high D in this paper to get my B overall, so it should be alright. Glad it went well for most others!

Reply 668

Frankie32

ww2 opposition
split it into conservatives,military,left wing,church and youth.

went ok although ran out of time for controversy(rise of nazis) :frown:

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 669

Frankie32

what would be a B out of 70??

Reply 670

grassntai

hey i did the ww2 question

i only had three paragraphs with conservatives, army and then leftwing/youth/church (all in one paragraph). would i be able to still get a level 5 for the essay? i argued that the army was the biggest threat but actually non of them were a significant opposition to the nazis due to their lack of consensus, low memberships and the terror state.

Reply 671

Carlos52004

Original post by Frankie32

what would be a B out of 70??

Part B is 40 out of 70 marks.

Reply 672

sixschmidt

The exam could not have gotten better. I basically regurgitated a pass essay on Nazi opposition with the word 'significant' and i'm pretty confident I got around 28/30. WW1 controversy was a dream question also, and the sources were fantastic; I couldn't believe they got Jeremy Paxman's account of the cause of WW1. I goofed a bit and didn't give a counter argument for Fischer with Ritter but on the whole I feel I argued well enough to get the top marks. Couldn't be happier.

Reply 673

Mowerharvey

Decent paper I thought. Shame there wasn't a question on the Weimar Republic though

Reply 674

grassntai

the nerve of them using the second reich again lmao

i swear the second reich has appeared in almost every year this decade?

Reply 675

aimbx

Original post by Dannyboy2015

Woohooo!

Best paper ever, I did the opposition and WW1 Qs.

:biggrin:

What did everyone else do?

Same! Buzzing, opposition was the thing I really wanted to come up! What did you put?

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Reply 676

Lostthelyrics

I did the opposition question in terms of the period of the war so in my first paragraph I talked about blitzkrieg and how morale was really high so opposition was unnecessary, any opposition was fairly limited like grumblings and the fact that people weren't happy about toilet paper and soap being rationed from 1939 etc.. Then for my second paragraph I talked about when the 'high' of blitzkrieg had ended and opposition took a turn.. I talked about the church - bishop Galen speaking out against euthanasia and bonhoffer calling the regime anti-christian, then I talked about the white rose movement with the student youth and then conservative opposition with the 1944 bomb plot!

Reply 677

SlimShady96

Everyone I know is happy about the exam, certainly the beats exam I've ever done, then again maybe it's not all good if everyone did amazing because grade boundaries will rise!

Reply 678

legolas_09

The Nazi Opposition Question was beautiful 👏🏼 . I split it into Conservatives, Communists,Youth & Church.
- Conservatives= Stauffenburg Plot & KC Circle but opposition was too late and some generals were deluded even with the 'turn of the tide'
- Communists= Resistance cells but poor leadership, tactics etc
- Youth= White Rose Group, Hitler Youth & Edelweiss Pirates
-Church= Bishop Galen Munster + Crucifix situation but comprimised with the signing of the Concordat

Are these good points?

Reply 679

XiuXiu

feeling a little nervous about doing separate paragraphs on Nazi suppression of opposition now since everybody else just split it into groups. Oh well, no point worrying now

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