Which factors played their part in establishing Nazi dictatorship in 1933-4?

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Lesson or enquiryHistorical focus
Teaching Germany 1919–1945Overview and planning
Was the Weimar Republic doomed from the start? A glass half empty?Evaluating Weimar’s prospects
How successful was Nazi policy towards women and families?Evaluating Nazi social policies
Why was Hitler able to consolidate his position in power between January 1933 and August 1934?Explaining the consolidation of dictatorship
Hitler’s propaganda: the cult of leader – reading internal cluesAnalysing Nazi propaganda
Why did Germany lose the Battle of Britain?Explaining Germany’s defeat
Market place: why I didn’t oppose HitlerExplaining the lack of opposition
Why was Röhm murdered?The Night of the Long Knives
Treaty of Versailles: could it possibly be to blame for the Weimar Republic’s defeat nearly 14 years later?Assessing the treaty’s longer-term impact
Weighing up the evidence for who caused the Reichstag FireEvaluating evidence and explanations
Working out what the election posters tell us about who voted NaziElection posters and Nazi support
Germany 1920–1923: problems facing WeimarChallenges to the Weimar Republic
Was Leni Riefenstahl’s ‘Triumph of the Will’ a documentary or propaganda?Evaluating film as a source
What were the main threats facing the Weimar Republic?Identifying and weighing threats
How much did the Gestapo really control people’s lives in Hitler’s Germany?Terror, control and everyday life
Did all Germans benefit equally from life under the Nazi regime, 1933–1945?Diversity of experience under Nazism
Battalion 101: why did they shoot? A history mysteryInvestigating perpetrators’ actions in the Holocaust
Germany 1933–1934: revision quickieRevising the consolidation of Nazi power
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