A Choatic Regime or Efficient
in Achieving its goals
Connector
• Chaotic
• Efficient
Outcomes
• All to understand how the Nazi regime can
be viewed as efficient and chaotic
• Most to be able to identify and analyse
sources that take these points of view
• Some students to be able to answer to a
higher level
New Information
• From our previous lessons what do you
remember about the key debates about
the Nazi leadership
• What were some of the debates?
Nazi Germany- a model of
totalistarianism
• 1984 written by George Orwell in the late
1940's models life in a totalitarian state
• He portrayed a system whereby there was
no place for the individual and every
aspect of life was controlled by the party
• In 1950's many historians interpreted the
regime as an example of a totalitarian
model
Today
• The idea is much less readily accepted
• Nazi Germany was not the single all
powerful structure suggested by the term
totalitarian
• Although it was a one party state it did nt
have the same degree of organisation as
the USSR
• The Nazi's never gathered centralised
control over the economy as the USSR
Read the source on page
Read soures A-X
What are they saying about Hitler and life in
Nazi Germany?
Debates
• Hitler- intentionalist interpretation
• The Third Reich- a polycracy
• Photocopy green book pages 268-270
Sources
• “The government of Nazi state was chaotic
and lacked coherance in the years 19331939”
• Sources v w and x