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Okay, I really do not understand why people are saying that Germans benefitted under the Nazi rule.

Yeah, they did benefit as almost all racially pure German man had a job when Hitler came to power due to rearmament and the Four Year Plan by Goering. Even the big businessmen benefitted because the trade unions were destroyed by Hitler. Even large departmental stores were happy when Hitler came to power as they stole businesses from those small shops selling consumer goods. Next, those peasant farmers also benefitted under the Nazis due to the Reich Food Estate. But the efficient farmers certainly did not benefit from the Nazis because they could have earned much more than what was offered in the Reich Food Estate. There's the Strength Through Joy where workers and families went on vacations, concerts, keep-fit clubs and so on. Yeah, and the Germans' pride returned under the Nazis. Germany was once again traditional and conservative too.

This is it for those people who benefitted from the Nazi rule.

People who didn't benefit are of course the minorities, to begin with. All the Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah Witnesses, churchmen against Hitler, physically and mentally disabled. So many of them and I do not think that women had anything good out of the Nazi rule. They were forced to stay home and make babies when some of them actually wanted to go to work. It was compulsory for all men to work for the German Labour Front for six months after their two years of national service. Even skilled men who could be professors and doctors had to dig ditches and plant trees. How did they benefit under the Nazis? Parents relationship with their kids also deteriorated due to the conflict of interests. Parents weren't keen on Hitler but their children were fanatics to Hitler. They even feared their own children because if they talked bad about Hitler and their kids report it to the teachers, they would be sent to concentration camps. Just like that. I mean, although the youths were loyal to Hitler and stuffs like that, they didn't really like the curriculum in school, being forced to do subjects and some even complained the lessons being repetitive. Of course, it's draining and boring for all subjects like Math, Chemistry, Geography, History to be circulated on the topic of military. Freedom for youths were limited, having to wake up at six am every morning and they disliked the routine in school. What more, writers, artists and film producers didn't benefit under the Nazi rule too. All books, paintings, posters, films and movies had to contain pro-Nazi messages. A lot of them had to find new jobs which was most probably in some factory. Yeah, and I talked about how the efficient farmers hated the Reich Food Estate too and how small shop houses loss businesses.

So, I don't think that a lot of Germans benefitted under the Nazis but why are people saying the other way round? I mean, it's true that German life under the Nazis was much better as compared to days during the Great Depression. But if a question was like to what extent did the Germans benefit under the Nazi rule during the 1930s, you can't really give a good answer without knowing what you are basing your answer on. Is it life in general or the Nazi life as compared to life during the Great Depression.

[MrJohnDClare]

You have answered your own question!

For some... life was good
For others... life became a nightmare.

http://www.johndclar...zi_Germany3.htm
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/studentforu...?showtopic=3973

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Haha...

So, I take it that there really isn't a right or wrong answer in History if you did state your point or argument clearly?

Hmm, got a question...

When a question asks 'How far', do you always have to say to a large or small extent? Can you say to a 'certain' extent?

Okay, I'll take a look at the links.

Thank you.

Paper 4, Depth Study (for me, Germany) tomorrow.

[MrJohnDClare]

space, on Oct 28 2008, 09:33 AM, said:

So, I take it that there really isn't a right or wrong answer in History if you did state your point or argument clearly?

To a great degree, yes.

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When a question asks 'How far', do you always have to say to a large or small extent? Can you say to a 'certain' extent?

I would say, at GCSE, no.
The question 'how far' is the same as saying 'to what extent'. 'To a certain extent' doesn't answer that question, it ust repeats the question - the question 'how far' infers that there was a 'certain' amount and what it wants is that you to quantify how much the 'certain' involves.
When you get and 'either-or' question or a 'how far' question, you don;t have to come down on one side or the other - you are allowed to say: 'some of one and some of the other', but you must always try to quantify the 'some', even if it's only in terms of 'much more', 'to a great degree', 'overwhelmingly' etc.

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Paper 4, Depth Study (for me, Germany) tomorrow.

Best of luck.

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I am demoralised by the History Paper 4 today...

Were you able to see the questions or anything like that?

It didn't even come out about Nazi Germany.

My school counsellor (used to be my History teacher) said that they're so obsessed with the recession, the economy in the world now that they tested about the invasion of the Ruhr for the whole of part a).

I flunk it, totally. Didn't even have enough time to write but I did finish. Just wasn't the best it could have been. I'm sure I did much better for my Prelims as I scored 32/40 for this paper. It would be surprising if I could even pass the paper.



My effort wasted.

[MrJohnDClare]

I'm sorry that you don't feel you have done your best.
We know how hard you have worked.

The only thing I would say at this point is to wait and see what the results are.

Those of us who are older have all come out of exams feeling that we have flunked it; and sometimes it has been true - we had!
But sometimes our feelings were liars.
Sometimes, when it is a hard exam, EVERYONE does 'badly', and you find they mark it appropriately more easily.
Sometimes you do better in a 'hard' exam, because you really have to think about the questions and don't just reel off things that don't really address the quesition.
Also those who know something do so much more obviously better in a hard exam than those who wandered in and hoped to blag it - in an easy exam they might have managed to get away with it, but in a hard exam they are 'found out'.

So don't worry. What's done is done anyway - you can't change it now.

And when you get the result, just sit down and work out where you go from there ... just exactly, in fact, as you would do however you have passed.

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Hey...

Thank you.

Hmm, I don't even know whether I've even done my best or not.
I've got almost everything crashing down on me.
It isn't relevant actually.
But I mean my past, family problems, addictions and my mental problems.

I can't even concentrate when I'm revising.
Shucks and *shrugs*

I'll just keep going still...

Vietnam War next!

I'm probably going to quit school next year, stop at Grade 10 due to some problems and I'll probably set up a blog or something which has useful History notes for revision. But duh, Mr John, yours is still the best. SCRAMCUP really helps me a lot. Saarland, Czechoslovakia, Rhineland, Anschluss, Munich Agreement, USSR (Nazi-Soviet Pact) and Poland.

[MrJohnDClare]

Here's another mnemonic for you:
KYCUP

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o.Okay, KYCUP?

What's that?

I can't figure.

Haha.

[MrJohnDClare]

Keep you chin up, pal.

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Hey,

I don't know whether to create a new topic or not but I didn't cause I thought it isn't nice to be creating to many topics.

But this is related to Germany anyhow.

Uh, what exactly happened when Hitler took over Czechoslovakia?

In one of my textbooks, it said that Hitler told Chamberlain on the 15th of September that he had interest in Czechoslovakia but didn't plan to invade unless plebiscite voted in favour to unite with them. But in my other book, it said that on the 15th of September, Chamberlain allowed Hitler to have parts of the Sudetenland.

I am confused.

Can help... please.

Thank you.

[MrJohnDClare]

You should have created a new topic for this - I will split it off when you have seen this post.

Details of the Sudeten;and crisis here - http://www.johndclar...RoadtoWWII5.htm

Don't confuse the Sudetenland crisis (Sept 1938) with Czechoslovakia (Mar 1939).
After he had got the Sudetenland in Spet 1938, Hitler THEN took over the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939.

[timothy]

please answer my question.. need it urgently...

" How far can Hitler be said to have improved the lives of the Germans?"

[MrJohnDClare]

There is a good thread on this on this forum.

Look also at these pages about life on Hitler's Germany here and here.