Life in Nazi Germany

A wide-ranging collection of 8 purposeful lessons covering life in Nazi Germany. They include PowerPoints and supportive materials. These lessons enable all students to maximise their potential by raising key questions and presenting focused thought-provoking exercises. They will also enable students to develop a range of essential skills.

1. Were workers better off? - Two tasks considering Nazi policies for German workers from two perspectives.
2. Business and Farming – An exercise in which statements, both positive and negative are developed and explanations of their significance added.
3. Women in Nazi Germany - A role-play exercise that students can have fun with, demonstrating how women from different walks of life held very different views.
4. What was it like to be young in Nazi Germany? - Another fun exercise to get your class into the mindset of Nazi Germany and the Nazis plans for German youth.
5. Volksgemeinschaft - There have not been specific questions on the national community but it is, nevertheless, at the heart of Nazism and to understand it helps us to understand each policy in its own right.
6. The Impact of War on Germany – A task that will get your students to consider the state of Germany mid-1944.
7. Anti-Semitism and the Final Solution - A series of exercises that consider all aspects of the most sensitive issue on the (I)GCSE course. Centred on potential questions.
8. Did life get better for Germans? – The ultimate question with students required to take opposite perspectives before reaching their conclusion.