Controlling Religion (Weimar and Nazi Germany: Edexcel 9-1)

WALT: Analyse how far Hitler succeeded in controlling religion.
Identify Hitler’s early policy towards the Church in the Enabling Act.
Describe how Hitler hoped to control the Catholic and the Protestant Church.
Explain why not everyone accepted Hitler’s policies about religion.
Analyse a source to explain how useful it is to a historian examining the catholic response to Hitler’s reforms.

Task one: pupils examine a source from the Enabling Act explaining how Hitler wanted his relationship to look with the church and make an inference

Task two: Carousel activity - how did Hitler gain control of the church? was there any immediate opposition (covered in more detail in a church opposition lesson).

Task three: how far did Hitler succeed in controlling the church? discussion

Task Four: How useful question including structure to guide weaker pupils and key words to prompt focus on knowledge and judgement. Full mark answer accompanies so that you can go through expectations for the 8 mark question with pupils and allow them to self assess and improve their own work based on the example.