Wednesday 17 April 2013

Presentations due Friday 19th April

A reminder that your presentation on who was responsible for the holocaust is due on Friday.  It should include an explanation and evidence for how your group could be held accountable, a counter argument with evidence and finally your own opinion on where responsibility lies.

Wednesday 6 March 2013

Wednesday 27 February 2013

What should be in your folder....


What your folder should have in it. Be up to date by 26th Nov


  1. Timeline of anti-Semitism throughout history from AD 321 - today
  2. List of key terms and meanings
  3. Explanations of the 4 types of Jews in Weimar Germany
  4. Who was the best example of an assimilated Jew sheet
  5. Written answer "who best represents assimilated Jews?"
  6. Spider diagram "Why did Jews move to Germany?"
  7. Wider reading "Gospels of Hate" annotated and highlighted
  8. Essay - How far were Jews successfully assimilated into Weimar Germany?
  9. Timeline of Weimar Germany from 1919-1933
  10. Notes on how anti-S emetic was Wiemar Germany by 1930
  11. Timeline of increased and decreased anti-Semitism 1920-1930
  12. Notes on Walter Rathenau
  13. Whos who of anti-Semitism including handouts from presentations
  14. Wider reading "Bohemian Revolutionaries" highlighted and annotated
  15. Notes on the main ideas in Mein Kampf
  16. Notes on the 25 point programme focusing on what the main aims of the Nazi Party were up to 1920
  17. Notes on Nazi ideology; Lebenraum, volkgemeinschaft and social darwinism
  18. Wider reading Hite and Hinton "Who supported the Nazi party?" with questions 3,4,6 and 7 completed
  19. Political spectrum diagram and outline of political parties of Weimar Germany
  20. Wider reading "Did Hitler have the support of the German people?" annotated and highlighted
  21. Notes on how much impact Hitler had on gaining votes
  22. Vote analysis of voting patterns between 1920- 1930 and then 1930-1933 
  23. A4 chart "How and why did Anti-Semitsim increase to March 
  24. Who voted for the Nazis A3 sheet 1933
  25.    Statistical analysis p55
  26. Revision activity p57 from Rowe  
  27. Timeline the different phases of Nazi Germany (Legal, New Germany and Radicalisation)
  28. Read and annotate "Hitler and the Holocaust" by Ian Kershaw 
  29. Hitler's aims note diagram from Farmer
  30. Flow diagram of anti-Semetic legislation
  31. Causes, Course and consequence of the Nuremberg Laws notes
  32. Big Questions sheet on Nuremberg Laws x2
  33. Practice Source questions on who voted for the Nazis x2
  34. Propaganda presentation
  35. A3 Propaganda sheet recording findings of presentations
  36. Propaganda essay 24 mark
  37. 3 Handouts on camps
  38. Jewish Boycott 12 mark question
  39. Notes on other victims of the Nazis 
  40. Read and make notes p80-83 of Rowe
  41. Complete chart of Nazi persecution of the Jews
  42. Notes on why the Jews didn't just leave Germany
  43. Read and highlight essay with reasons why some Jews left Germany and why others chose to stay.
  44. Complete one case study of how Jewish people were received by other countries
  45. Timeline showing key events of WW2 and impact on anti-semitism
  46. Map showing Nazi conquest of territory, location of ghettos, einsatzgruppen and death camps.
  47. Notes from Farmer and Rowe on occupation of Eastern territories.
  48. 12 mark source question "How far do the views in Sources B differ from those in source A in relation to anti-semitism in Weimar Germany?"
  49. Notes on ghettoisation from lesson and wider reading.

Homework due Friday 8th March

Complete the wider reading on ghettos you were given in class today (27th Feb) and research one ghetto from creation to liquidation.  Bring all of this to lesson on Friday 8th March.

Friday 22 February 2013

Homework 22nd February 2013

You need to complete the reading and questions from Farmer and Rowe.  You also have a 12 mark source question to complete with plan, answer, grade and explanation of grade.  This is all due on Thursday 28th February.

Friday 18 January 2013

snow work

You have been lucky enough to get a little bit of extra time to work on your presentations.  You must use lesson time to improve on what you have already put together with a particular focus on individual accounts.  With extra time the presentation should be fantastic!

Saturday 12 January 2013

Homework to be set Friday 18th January

You should have a timeline detailing all the actions the Nazis took against the Jews. You will need to colour code violent v legal methods. You will need to show how and why things got progressively worse - why were the Nazis taking such actions? What were they hoping to achieve? You also need to use the reading given today to provide real examples of how these things influenced the lives of Jewish individuals.

What were the Nazis trying to achieve?
What happened?
Specific example of Jewish experience
Remove Jewish influence
April 1933 Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
Law against overcrowding of GermanSchools and Universities

October 1933 Exclusion of German Jews from the Press

September 1935 The Nuremberg Laws

November 1935 Supplementary decree of the Reich Citizenship Law

April 1938 Registration of Jewish assets over 5000 marks

October 1938 jewish Passports stamped with a large ‘J’

November 1938 Jews forbidden to visit theatres etc

Expulsion of all Jewish pupils from schools

December 1938 Compulsory sale of all Jewish businesses

October 1939 Euthenasia Programme authorized by Hitler

November 1939 Jews in occupied Polandmade to wear the star of David

Summer 1940 Madagascar Plan developed

November 1940 Warsaw ghetto is sealed

1941 Einzatsgruppen deployed behind the Eastern Front

August 1941 Euthanasia Programme halted

September 1941 Mass killings of Jews near Kiev

December 1941 Gassing of Jews at Chelmno

January 1942 Wannsee conference
























Jewish lawyers are removed from their positions. Hindenburg steps in to help reduce the persecution of Jewish people who fought during WW1.

Tuesday 8 January 2013

Cover work instructions 9th January

Students should read pages 78-80 in Rowe and p64-67 in Farmer making notes on Kristallnacht.  They should then watch the video (link on the blog) making detailed notes on the experiences of different individuals during the Kristallnacht violence.