A-level
HISTORY
Component 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
• an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
• Use black ink or black b
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A-level
HISTORY
Component 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945
Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
• an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
• Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7042/2O.
• Answer three questions.
In Section A answer Question 01.
In Section B answer two questions.
Information
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• The maximum mark for this paper is 80.
• You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
• You are advised to spend about:
– 1 hour on Question 01 from Section A
– 45 minutes on each of the two questions answered from Section B.
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IB/M/Jun22/7042/2O
Section A
Answer Question 01.
Source A
From the memoirs of General Groener, Deputy Chief of the Army General Staff,
published 1957. Here he recalls his telephone conversation with Ebert, 10 November
1918.
In the evening I telephoned Ebert and told him that the army would support the
government and in return the officer corps expected the support of the government in the
maintenance of order and discipline in the army. I expected the government to fight
against Bolshevism and to be ready for the struggle. Ebert accepted my offer of an
alliance. From then on, we discussed necessary measures every evening on a secret
telephone; the alliance proved successful.
We hoped to gain a share of power in the new state for the army and the officer corps. If
we succeeded, then we would have rescued, for the new Germany, the best and
strongest elements of old Prussia, despite the revolution.
At first, of course, we had to make concessions, for developments in the army and in the
homeland had taken such a turn as to make the vigorous issuing of commands by the
High Command impossible for the time being. The task was to contain and make the
revolutionary movement harmless.
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Source B
From a speech by Karl Liebknecht, a Communist leader, at a SPD/USPD meeting in
Berlin, 10 November 1918.
I am afraid that I must pour cold water on your enthusiasm. The counter-revolution is
already on the march; it is already in action. It is already among us. Dangers to the
revolution threaten us from many sides. Danger threatens not only from those circles
that up to now have held the reins of power – big landowners, Junkers, capitalists,
imperialists, monarchists and generals – but also from those who today support the
revolution but were still opposing it the
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