Edexcel A2 History - Germany 1900-45 - Monday 8th June 2015 [Exam Discussion Thread]

Imagine if Edexcel was watching this post and saw that we predicted Nazi consolidation and then decided to change it last minute xD


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Ngl they probably do watch the threads closely. Some of us on this thread may even be... Undercover...


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Ngl they probably do watch the threads closely. Some of us on this thread may even be... Undercover...


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I can't trust anyone!


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Lol yeah I work for Edexcel. I'm totally laughing right now because I know what's coming up... Or do I?


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Hahaha. Investigation over - I'm bluffing

Wish I could have some inside knowledge though...


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My teacher still hasn't marked a single source question we have given him... Like, perhaps he just forgot to give them back because he's given other classes theirs back?

Anyway, I don't even want to do more questions now in case my method is flawed and get used to the wrong way of answering things. Smh.

My teacher still hasn't marked a single source question we have given him... Like, perhaps he just forgot to give them back because he's given other classes theirs back?

Anyway, I don't even want to do more questions now in case my method is flawed and get used to the wrong way of answering things. Smh.

Damn it... I had an excuse not to revise!

You just took it away


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You could try asking him to give it back and see if he's marked it.


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I would plan essays and revise content in the mean time. How long before you break up?


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I honestly keep on forgetting to ask him LOL so kinda my fault

But we break up on the 22nd I think so this and next week! And then only come in for exams. I think I'll get some essays done anyway and just hand them in for marking so I get feedback on several

Sounds sensible. Personally I just plan and don't write essays but I wouldn't say it works for everyone! I'm just lazy haha.


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Sounds sensible. Personally I just plan and don't write essays but I wouldn't say it works for everyone! I'm just lazy haha.


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My key points are:

• Terror and violence:
- Emergency decree laws, 28th Feb 1933
- SA police brought in (50,000) in Prussia on 23rd Feb 1933
- Dachau concentration camp set up 20th March 1933
- 150,000-200,000 political prisoners arrested in 1933
- March elections and Enabling Law vote contested with SA intimidation

• Pragmatism:
- Speech to Reichstag committing to conservative values, 1st Feb 1933
- International Labour Day celebrated, 1st May 1933 to please workers before TUs shut down next day
- Concordat with Papacy, 20th July 1933 meant church reduced its political influence but not religious influence - any further oppression of churches would bring opposition
- Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, 7th April 1933 cut only 5% of civil servants - Hitler needed them to co-operate so the state could function


• Key support:
- Hindenburg happy to pass emergency decree laws
- Potsdam Day impresses Hindenburg and Kaiser's son
- Elites happy for Hitler to consolidate power so a compliant mass movement could be taken advantage of at a later date when Hitler would be deposed and replaced by an authoritarian alternative

• Veneer of legality:
- Emergency decree laws cement in law the legal discrimination of KPD members
- March elections 'prove' Nazis to rise in popularity - from 33.1% to 43.5% November 1932 to March 1933
- All other parties legally banned by 14th July 1933.


I suppose you could mention Night of the Long Knives, but not if the question restricted it to 1933.


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Yeah same I'm real lazy when it comes to essays too. But I feel that planning plan B won't be enough because sometimes I find it that plans just down go the way I plan them to sadly haha

I write essays xD

I figured planning them is the easy part. An A* plan would be the same as a B plan!

Writing the actual essay is what makes the difference xD


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Thank you x

No worries! How's your revision going?


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