OCR A-Level History Democracy and Dictatorships 1919-1963

Original post by Smoothcrimin0l

Q2. Could not have done that allied bombing q, although the GDR wasn't much better

They were both really hard, second 10 marker definitely easiest.

Just want someone else’s view, for the first 20 marker on the Allied bombing negatively affected German citizens or something like that, I agreed that it was the main reason and the other two reasons I offered was the machinery of terror (limited freedom for some citizens) and Nazi racial policies and policies towards women (again limited freedom and Jews targeted as well as homosexuals and killed)

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I did Q1 too, I did: bombing, holocaust, war economy/effort and rule by fear/SS rape

Original post by Pannj

They were both really hard, second 10 marker definitely easiest.

Just want someone else’s view, for the first 20 marker on the Allied bombing negatively affected German citizens or something like that, I agreed that it was the main reason and the other two reasons I offered was the machinery of terror (limited freedom for some citizens) and Nazi racial policies and policies towards women (again limited freedom and Jews targeted as well as homosexuals and killed)

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Original post by Matt7235

I did Q1 too, I did: bombing, holocaust, war economy/effort and rule by fear/SS rape

Fair enough so we kind of done a bit similar as we spoke about the fear of the SS as well as I did Gestapo, Courts and concentration camps just the whole terror apparatus. I could use key dates but I guess it did affect people as they lived in fear and if they were to speak out against the regime then they faced problems

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Smoothcrimin0l

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Yeah, I completely forgot to split into social, economic, and political, and ended up just focusing on the economy and collectivisation, land reform, industrialisation, etc.

Original post by osjdhws

So bad, we haven't even learnt about the GDR domestic policies in class so I was rambling about denazification/democratisation and the Berlin Blockade for the whole essay :frown:

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Original post by Matt7235

I did Q1 too, I did: bombing, holocaust, war economy/effort and rule by fear/SS rape

Did you agree that bombing was the main reason?

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Yeah, I talked about the Gestapo and Hitler youth spying on parents for fear and pretty much the same for holocaust

Original post by Pannj

Fair enough so we kind of done a bit similar as we spoke about the fear of the SS as well as I did Gestapo, Courts and concentration camps just the whole terror apparatus. I could use key dates but I guess it did affect people as they lived in fear and if they were to speak out against the regime then they faced problems

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Original post by Matt7235

Yeah, I talked about the Gestapo and Hitler youth spying on parents for fear and pretty much the same for holocaust

Hopefully it’s all good then, for the 10 marker which did you say was the greatest?

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No I didn't, because it's affect wasn't on whole pop bc it was mainly cities, I said fear/war effort was more important as it affected everyone

Original post by Pannj

Did you agree that bombing was the main reason?

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I said economy, bc foreign failed in reunification (and I couldn't think of a economy failure xD)

Original post by Pannj

Hopefully it’s all good then, for the 10 marker which did you say was the greatest?

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