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

If a 'how far did the Nazis consolidate power by 1933' or whatever came up, rather than the multi-factor question, how would everyone tackle that? I think that's much harder to write convincingly about

Well you would use similar factors but just split them into the successful and not so successful i guess


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But then you'd probably have to include things like army worrying about nazi radicals, churches remaining independent, SA calling for a second revolution...

If consolidation does cope up it better come up as a judgement question or else I'll probably panic or something.

You would have to mention these without alluding to the Night of the Long Knives etc though. As its outside the time frame.


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How would you go about answering the 'how far did the nazis consolidate power by the end of 1933' type question?

Any yes, no knowledge needed of post-33 stuff, it's just not in the timeframe that the exam will be testing. Good to have as background I guess.

I would argue mainly yes, with two paragraphs on why they did and a final one saying how they still had some restrictions. What about you?


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I'd do the same. I think the restrictions/ways in which they didn't consolidate power is harder to write about concretely. What sort of things would you include in that paragraph? I think the arguing in favour part is similar to the other type of question we could get on this.

I suppose you could mention how there was perhaps consolidating still left to do for example briefly mention the night of the long knives x

Yes, but talking about post-33 consolidation to prove the point means you're going off the time period, which they won't really credit. It's a difficult one....

Yes I know... I don't mean put that in as a factor otherwise one would get penalised for that however including the night of the long knives at the end wouldn't lose marks if anything it would show how power wasn't ultimately consolidated at the end of 1933 x

What about this: 'How far did Hitler consolidate his power after 1933?'

It seems like a stretch but perhaps possible?

Or maybe: 'How far was Hitler's power consolidated after 1933?' - do the effects of consolidation

Consolidation should come up, but in what form is the question.

What do you guys think?

That's too much a stretch IMO. If they wanted to ask something like this they'd probably just go with a WW2 opposition question or something

What about this: 'How far did Hitler consolidate his power after 1933?'

It seems like a stretch but perhaps possible?

Or maybe: 'How far was Hitler's power consolidated after 1933?' - so the effects of consolidation

Consolidation should come up, but in what form is the question.

What do you guys think?

That can't come up as its in the controversy specification and not in part a.

If consolidation comes up at all in part a, it will only be up until July 1933.


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