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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. 2 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. 5 10 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 [Show More]

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