CCHM 2025 HIST PRELIM P1 QP

Section A: Source-Based Case Study Question 1 is for all candidates Study the Background Information and the sources carefully, and then answer all the questions. You may use any of the sources to help you answer the questions, in addition to those sources which you are told to use. In answering the questions, you should use your knowledge of the topic to help you interpret and evaluate the sources. 1 (a) Study Source A. What can you infer about life under Nazi rule for the workers? Explain your answer, using details of the source and your knowledge. [5] (b) Study Source B. How useful is Source B as evidence of German workers’ support for Hitler’s rule? Explain your answer, using details of the source and your knowledge. [6] (c) Study Source C. Why do you think Goebbels made this speech? Explain your answer. [5] (d) Study Sources D and E. How far does Source E prove that Source D is wrong? Explain your answer. [6] (e) Study all the sources. ‘Hitler and the Nazi Party enjoyed the support of the German workers.’ How far do the sources support this view? Explain your answer. [8] 2025 Preliminary Examination/CCHMS/Secondary 4/History/2174/01 [Turn over

2 Hitler and the Nazi Party’s relationship with the workers BACKGROUND INFORMATION Read this carefully. It may help you answer some of the questions. After coming to power in 1933, Hitler introduced a range of policies aimed at rebuilding Germany’s economy and uniting its people. At the time, the country was facing high unemployment and hardship. To address this, the government launched large-scale projects and increased military production, which created many jobs. Trade unions were replaced by a state-run organisation, and strikes were banned. Did the workers support what the Nazis were doing? Source A: An election poster by the Social Democratic Party* in March 1933. It is titled, “The Worker in the Empire of the Swastika”. *The Social Democratic Party represented the workers in Germany. 2025 Preliminary Examination/CCHMS/Secondary 4/History/2174/01

3 Source B: An advertisement from the Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy), published in the late 1930s. It depicts a happy, prosperous family with their Volkswagen (People’s Car) and Volksempfänger (People’s Receiver), a mass-produced radio. 2025 Preliminary Examination/CCHMS/Secondary 4/History/2174/01 [Turn over

4 Source C: Adapted from a speech by Joseph Goebbels, on Hitler’s birthday, 1941. Thus, we greet him on the eve of his birthd