Nazi ideology
Identify continuity and change
Key Learning Activity:
In this activity, students will identify change and continuity in Hitler’s ideology during the Nazi regime. Students will compare a range of sources from early in Hitler’s rise to power to policies and decisions made later and determine whether he remained true to his ideology. Students will also engage in historiographical argument and examine intentionalist v structuralist historiographical claims about Hitler’s leadership.
Instructions:
Students will read and analyse the key documents of Hitler’s ideology: the 25 Points (1920) and Mein Kampf (1924). Students and teacher will then extract Hitler’s key tenets and define them (see worksheet below). Students will then work in groups to investigate whether Hitler’s ideology was adhered to throughout his rule, or whether he was forced to adapt in response to the added demands and pressures he was faced with. Using a variety of primary and secondary sources and prior knowledge, students will uncover how Hitler’s ideological beliefs were applied through policies and decrees and to what extent they remained in place throughout his rule.
Based on their findings, students will then begin to evaluate whether Hitler was intentionalist or structuralist in his power.
In this activity, students will identify change and continuity in Hitler’s ideology during the Nazi regime. Students will compare a range of sources from early in Hitler’s rise to power to policies and decisions made later and determine whether he remained true to his ideology. Students will also engage in historiographical argument and examine intentionalist v structuralist historiographical claims about Hitler’s leadership.
Instructions:
Students will read and analyse the key documents of Hitler’s ideology: the 25 Points (1920) and Mein Kampf (1924). Students and teacher will then extract Hitler’s key tenets and define them (see worksheet below). Students will then work in groups to investigate whether Hitler’s ideology was adhered to throughout his rule, or whether he was forced to adapt in response to the added demands and pressures he was faced with. Using a variety of primary and secondary sources and prior knowledge, students will uncover how Hitler’s ideological beliefs were applied through policies and decrees and to what extent they remained in place throughout his rule.
Based on their findings, students will then begin to evaluate whether Hitler was intentionalist or structuralist in his power.