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Question 1Historical evidence, chronology and justified interpretation

In der Quellenanalyse zur Französischen Revolution untersuchst du ein Dekret der Nationalversammlung von 1789. Welches Merkmal kennzeichnet einen solchen normativen Text (texte normatif) im Unterschied zu einer erzählenden Quelle?

  1. Er formuliert verbindliche Regeln und verwendet häufig performative Formeln wie „décrète“ oder „ordonne“. Correct answer.
  2. Er schildert persönliche Empfindungen des Verfassers und ist daher subjektiv gefärbt.
  3. Er beschreibt Ereignisse chronologisch aus der Perspektive eines Augenzeugen.
  4. Er liefert statistische Reihen, die quantitative Vergleiche ermöglichen.

Explanation

Normative Quellen wie Dekrete oder Gesetze legen verbindliche Regeln fest. Performative Formeln signalisieren, dass der Text selbst eine Rechtswirkung erzeugt, statt bloß zu berichten. Deshalb prüft man bei ihnen vor allem Adressat, Reichweite und Rechtskraft.

Question 2Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

What event conventionally opens the political transition associated with the Novemberrevolution 1918 in Germany?

  1. The founding of the Bundesrepublik in 1949
  2. The building of the Berliner Mauer in 1961
  3. Sailors’ mutiny at Kiel and the cascading Räte/Arbeiter- und Soldatenräte movement culminating in Kaiser Wilhelm II’s abdication Correct answer.
  4. The Maastricht Treaty in 1992

Explanation

The Novemberrevolution began with the Kiel Matrosenaufstand (late Oct/early Nov 1918), spread via Arbeiter- und Soldatenräte, and led to the Kaiser’s abdication and proclamation of a republic.

Question 3Nazi dictatorship, war, persecution and the Holocaust

Welches Ereignis markiert in der deutschen Geschichte den Übergang von der Weimarer Republik zur nationalsozialistischen Diktatur im Jahr 1933?

  1. Das Ermächtigungsgesetz vom 24. März 1933
  2. Der Reichstagsbrand am 27. Februar 1933
  3. Die Ernennung Adolf Hitlers zum Reichskanzler am 30. Januar 1933 Correct answer.
  4. Die Reichstagswahl vom 5. März 1933

Explanation

Die Ernennung Hitlers zum Reichskanzler durch Reichspräsident Hindenburg am 30. Januar 1933 gilt als Beginn der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft. Die übrigen Ereignisse folgten später und bauten die Diktatur weiter aus.

Question 4Imperial rivalry, World War I and the interwar order

Welches Ereignis gilt als unmittelbarer Auslöser des Ersten Weltkriegs im Juli 1914?

  1. Der Abschluss des Versailler Vertrags
  2. Die Ermordung des österreichischen Thronfolgers Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo Correct answer.
  3. Der Ausbruch der Russischen Revolution
  4. Der Rücktritt Bismarcks als Reichskanzler

Explanation

Am 28. Juni 1914 wurden Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand und seine Frau in Sarajevo von Gavrilo Princip erschossen. Österreich-Ungarn nutzte dies für ein Ultimatum an Serbien, woraus über die Bündnissysteme der Weltkrieg entstand. Die anderen genannten Ereignisse liegen zeitlich davor oder danach und sind keine Kriegsauslöser.

Question 5Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

The ‘Krisenjahr’ highlighted in Schwerpunktthema I is…

  1. 1914
  2. 1923 Correct answer.
  3. 1939
  4. 1948

Explanation

The SPT focuses on the Krisenjahr 1923 - Ruhrbesetzung, Inflation, and the turn toward Verständigung under Stresemann.

Question 6Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

According to the SPT, how were Ruhrbesetzung and Inflation linked in pushing government policy in 1923?

  1. They were unrelated domestic hobbies of local clubs
  2. Their Verschränkung forced a path of Verständigung with the Allies under the Stresemann government, opening Stabilisierung Correct answer.
  3. They automatically created full employment without political cost
  4. They abolished the need for any foreign policy

Explanation

The SPT describes how Ruhrbesetzung and Inflation’s interconnection compelled the Stresemann government toward Verständigung with the Allies, beginning a Stabilisierungsphase.

Question 7Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Which cultural movement does the SPT highlight as an exemplary Vertiefung of Weimar modernisation, including sozialpolitische Aspekte?

  1. Only medieval guild pageants
  2. The Bauhaus-Bewegung (avantgardistische Kunst) Correct answer.
  3. Exclusively Wilhelmine court ceremonial
  4. Only socialist realism of the 1950s GDR

Explanation

The SPT points to avantgardistische Kunst, insbesondere die Bauhaus-Bewegung in ihren sozialpolitischen Aspekten, as exemplary Vertiefung.

Question 8Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Besides Bauhaus, which social fields does the SPT name as sites of liberalisation tendencies between Reform and Restauration?

  1. Only naval shipbuilding statistics
  2. Reformpädagogik and the beginning questioning of Geschlechterrollen Correct answer.
  3. Only medieval canon law
  4. Only 1990s internet regulation

Explanation

The SPT lists reformpädagogische Konzepte and beginnende Infragestellung von Geschlechterrollen alongside art as liberalisation fields.

Question 9Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

What tension does the SPT ask students to examine regarding Weimar societal modernisation?

  1. Only climate policy versus tourism after 2000
  2. Spannungsfeld of progressive and restorative forces, yielding fragile Fortschritt Correct answer.
  3. Only interwar sports-club rivalries as the main political cleavage
  4. Only Hanseatic grain prices in 1400 as Soft power

Explanation

Students examine how, im Spannungsfeld von progressiven und restaurativen Kräften, approaches of considerable yet fragile progress could unfold - and whether they were traditionsbildend for the Bundesrepublik.

Question 10Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

After which crisis does the SPT say Weimar’s plural society could no longer prevent the democracy’s failure?

  1. The Weltwirtschaftskrise beginning 1929 Correct answer.
  2. The oil crisis of 1973 only
  3. The dot-com crash of 2000
  4. The Congress of Vienna 1815

Explanation

The SPT states that after the Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929 the plurale Gesellschaft could not prevent the Scheitern der Demokratie, and students erörtern the Ursachen.

Question 11Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

A historically careful reading of ‘goldene Zwanziger’ media portrayals should ask whether…

  1. Only fashion trends matter and politics never existed
  2. Weimar’s democratic and social Errungenschaften are adequately represented, or whether glamour eclipses crisis and conflict Correct answer.
  3. All TV dramas are primary Quellen equal to cabinet minutes without distinction
  4. Students must reject any film as inherently false without analysis

Explanation

The SPT frames discussion of popular media under whether Weimar’s Errungenschaften come appropriately to Geltung - a critical Geschichtskultur question, not blanket rejection or collapse of source types.

Question 12Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Which sequence best matches the SPT’s narrative arc for Schwerpunktthema I?

  1. NS dictatorship → Weimar foundation → medieval empire
  2. Entstehungsbedingungen after World War I → Krisenjahr 1923/Stabilisierung → societal modernisation tensions → Niedergang after 1929 → Gegenwartsrezeption Correct answer.
  3. Only 1945–1949 occupation without Weimar
  4. Only 1990 reunification debates

Explanation

The SPT moves from postwar Entstehungsbedingungen and Innenpolitik overview, through 1923/Stresemann stabilisation, to modernisation tensions, then failure after 1929, plus contemporary reception.

Question 13Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Hyperinflation in 1923 is best understood in this Schwerpunkt as…

  1. A purely cultural fashion for abstract painting
  2. A political-economic crisis intertwined with Ruhrpolitik that shaped Stabilisierung choices Correct answer.
  3. Proof that Weimar never had any currency
  4. An event inventable as a 1950s FRG phenomenon only

Explanation

The SPT links Inflation with Ruhrbesetzung as intertwined crises driving Verständigung and later Stabilisierung - political-economic, not merely aesthetic.

Question 14Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Why might Bauhaus be used as a historical lens on Weimar society rather than only as ‘art history’?

  1. Because the SPT stresses sozialpolitische Aspekte of the movement within modernisation debates Correct answer.
  2. Because Bauhaus abolished all politics by decree in 1919
  3. Because Bauhaus was founded in 1949 in Bonn
  4. Because Bauhaus replaced the Reichstag as legislature

Explanation

The SPT explicitly invites Vertiefung via Bauhaus in its sozialpolitischen Aspekten within progressive vs restorative tensions.

Question 15Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

In an interpretation of Weimar society, what does the phrase fragile progress most appropriately describe?

  1. That no cultural change occurred at all between 1919 and 1929
  2. That notable modernising approaches existed but remained contested and vulnerable within progressive/restorative conflict Correct answer.
  3. That Weimar already guaranteed irreversible democratic consolidation
  4. That only military technology counted as progress

Explanation

The phrase identifies real modernization or cultural gains that remained contested and vulnerable. It distinguishes change from irreversible democratic consolidation and allows progressive and restorative forces to coexist. Which developments count as progress must be supported with evidence and explicit criteria, rather than inferred from a curriculum label.

Question 16Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Which claim about Weimar’s traditionsbildende Wirkung for the Bundesrepublik does the SPT invite?

  1. Students should ignore any continuity questions
  2. Students discuss inwieweit Weimar modernisation approaches became traditionsbildend for the Bundesrepublik Correct answer.
  3. The SPT forbids comparing Weimar and FRG
  4. Only GDR institutions may be compared to Weimar

Explanation

The SPT asks learners to discuss whether these approaches were traditionsbildend für die Bundesrepublik - a Gegenwartsbezug/continuity question.

Question 17Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Passive resistance in the Ruhr in 1923 is historically connected to…

  1. Franco-Belgian occupation of the Ruhr and the ensuing political-economic crisis Correct answer.
  2. Only the building of the Berlin Wall
  3. Only the Schengen agreement
  4. Only the introduction of the euro

Explanation

Ruhrbesetzung by Franco-Belgian forces and German passive resistance are core to the 1923 crisis complex the SPT highlights.

Question 18Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Stresemann’s policy of Verständigung is best characterised as…

  1. Permanent refusal of any diplomacy with the Allies
  2. A turn toward negotiated understanding with the Allies amid crisis, associated with Stabilisierung Correct answer.
  3. A 1990 reunification treaty
  4. A medieval Hanseatic staple right

Explanation

The SPT links Stresemann’s path of Verständigung with the Allies to the opening of Stabilisierung after 1923’s crisis complex.

Question 19Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Which statement about Weimar Innenpolitik does the SPT expect as overview competence?

  1. Students can describe phases and Innenpolitik development across 1918–1933 in overview Correct answer.
  2. Students must memorise only one cabinet without chronology
  3. Innenpolitik is banned from the Schwerpunkt
  4. Only foreign monarchs’ biographies are required

Explanation

Competences include describing Phasen der Weimarer Republik im Überblick (1918–1933) and acquiring overview of innenpolitische Entwicklung.

Question 20Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

A multiperspective approach to Weimar society would typically…

  1. Use only one party newspaper as absolute truth without critique
  2. Compare perspectives of different social/political actors and media representations, noting interests and limits Correct answer.
  3. Refuse all Quellen as unusable
  4. Replace evidence with modern opinion polls only

Explanation

Multiperspektivität - emphasised in the SPT - means analysing differing standpoints and representations rather than monoperspective certainty.

Question 21Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Which best describes the SPT’s warning against reading Weimar only as NS prelude?

  1. Weimar should also be evaluated as Keim einer modernen Demokratie Correct answer.
  2. Weimar must be ignored in favour of 1871 only
  3. NS history is banned from any neighbouring Halbjahr
  4. Democracy concepts are irrelevant to the Bildungsplan

Explanation

The SPT states Weimar im Rückblick nicht nur as Nährboden for NS rise, sondern auch as Keim einer modernen Demokratie gewertet werden sollte.

Question 22Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Gender-role change in Weimar, in SPT terms, is best treated as…

  1. A finished, uncontested revolution with no backlash
  2. Beginnende Infragestellung within a field of Reform and Restauration Correct answer.
  3. Identical to 21st-century legal regimes without historicisation
  4. Irrelevant to Gesellschaftsgeschichte

Explanation

The SPT speaks of beginnende Infragestellung von Geschlechterrollen amid progressive/restorative tension - beginnings and contestation, not completed uncontested transformation.

Question 23Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Spaltung der demokratischen Kräfte contributes to Weimar’s Niedergang by…

  1. Uniting all democrats into one unbreakable bloc
  2. Weakening coherent democratic defence against anti-republican forces amid crisis Correct answer.
  3. Abolishing elections entirely in 1924 by consensus
  4. Creating automatic majority governments without coalitions

Explanation

The SPT clusters democratic fragmentation with economic crisis and weak republican culture as explanatory factors for decline - fragmentation undermines coherent democratic defence.

Question 24Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Fehlen republikanischer Gesinnung in the SPT decline cluster refers to…

  1. Universal enthusiastic republican loyalty in all elites and publics
  2. Insufficient rooted republican political culture supporting democratic institutions under stress Correct answer.
  3. A law banning the word Republik
  4. Only the absence of modern social media

Explanation

The competence wording groups Fehlen republikanischer Gesinnung with crisis and fragmentation - a cultural-political deficit in republican commitment, not a social-media anachronism.

Question 25Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Which approach best matches Gegenwartsbezug when discussing Babylon Berlin in this Schwerpunkt?

  1. Treat the series as a primary archival Akte without distinction
  2. Discuss how popular media shape Erinnerung at Weimar and evaluate adequacy of portraying Errungenschaften and crises Correct answer.
  3. Ignore the series because entertainment can never be historically discussed
  4. Use it only to memorise incorrect dates deliberately

Explanation

The SPT asks whether Errungenschaften, specially in popular media such as Babylon Berlin, angemessen zur Geltung kommen - a Geschichtskultur/Gegenwartsbezug task.

Question 26Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Avantgardistische Kunst in Weimar is framed by the SPT primarily as…

  1. Proof that politics never intersected with culture
  2. A field of modernisation debates with social-political dimensions Correct answer.
  3. Illegal in all Länder by 1920
  4. Identical to Adenauer-era state art doctrine

Explanation

Avant-garde art, especially Bauhaus, is a Vertiefung for politische und gesellschaftliche Modernisierung with sozialpolitischen Aspekten.

Question 27Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Which judgement about 1924–1929 ‘relative stabilisation’ is most SPT-compatible?

  1. It never happened; 1923 continued unbroken until 1933
  2. A Stabilisierungsphase followed the 1923 crisis complex, yet later crisis after 1929 revealed remaining fragility Correct answer.
  3. Stabilisation permanently solved class conflict and ended all parties
  4. Stabilisation meant Weimar annexed Austria in 1925

Explanation

The SPT pairs presentation of 1923 with judgement of the Stabilisierungsphase, then separately treats Niedergang after 1929 - implying real but non-permanent stabilisation.

Question 28Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Why include both progressive and restorative forces in Weimar Gesellschaftsanalyse?

  1. Because the SPT centres the Spannungsfeld between them as explaining fragile modernisation Correct answer.
  2. Because restorative forces are a myth with no historical actors
  3. Because only restorative forces existed
  4. Because the SPT bans conflict analysis

Explanation

The SPT’s wording places modernisation im Spannungsfeld von progressiven und restaurativen Kräften - conflicted coexistence is the analytical point.

Question 29Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

A historically strong comparison of Weimar cultural modernisation and FRG culture should…

  1. Assert identity of all institutions without evidence
  2. Specify which practices/norms might be traditionsbildend and which ruptures matter, using evidence Correct answer.
  3. Deny any possible legacy because the SPT forbids the question
  4. Use only sports match results as historical proof

Explanation

The SPT’s traditionsbildend question invites evidenced judgement about continuities and breaks - not identity claims or prohibition.

Question 30Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Innenpolitische Entwicklung of Weimar in overview should include awareness that…

  1. Cabinets, parties, and constitutional conflicts mattered alongside social-cultural change Correct answer.
  2. Only fashion magazines explain the Republic’s fate
  3. There was no constitution
  4. Only one party ever existed

Explanation

The SPT pairs societal Vertiefungen with Überblick über innenpolitische Entwicklung - political institutions and conflicts remain essential.

Question 31Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Which description of 1923’s Stabilisierungsimpuls is most accurate?

  1. Military victory over France created automatic prosperity without diplomacy
  2. Crisis pressures pushed toward Verständigungspolitik that enabled a Stabilisierungsphase Correct answer.
  3. The League of Nations dissolved Germany in 1923
  4. Hyperinflation was celebrated as intentional long-term policy success

Explanation

SPT wording: Verschränkung of Ruhrbesetzung and Inflation forced a path of Verständigung, womit eine Phase der Stabilisierung beginnt.

Question 32Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

When judging whether Weimar was ‘modern’, SPT-aligned reasoning should…

  1. Use only present-day moral slogans without historical criteria
  2. Weigh concrete liberalisation fields (art, gender, pedagogy) against restorative limits and later collapse Correct answer.
  3. Declare modernity impossible before 1990
  4. Count only factory smokestacks as modernity

Explanation

The Schwerpunkt’s structure - liberalisation Vertiefungen, progressive/restorative tension, and post-1929 failure - supports evidenced weighing, not sloganising.

Question 33Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

A candidate choosing the Weimar Aufgabe should prioritise material that supports…

  1. A pure chronicle of battles with no societal analysis
  2. Problem-oriented discussion of Weimar society themes matching the Aufgabenstellung and material Correct answer.
  3. Only memorised lists of Olympic medal counts
  4. Only copying the Erwartungshorizont if somehow obtained

Explanation

Official success depends on engaging the set problem and material for Gesellschaft der Weimarer Republik - not battle lists, sports trivia, or illicit marking guides.

Question 34Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Which statement best reflects SPT expectations about Weimar’s ‘plurale Gesellschaft’?

  1. Plurality alone guaranteed democratic survival after 1929
  2. A plurale Gesellschaft emerged, yet after 1929 it could not prevent democracy’s failure - causes must be erörtert Correct answer.
  3. Plurality meant only one permitted worldview
  4. Plurality began only in 1989

Explanation

The SPT: die aufkommende plurale Gesellschaft konnte spätestens nach 1929 das Scheitern der Demokratie nicht verhindern - plurality without sufficient democratic resilience.

Question 35Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Which starting points does the SPT name for Allied attempts to confront Germans with NS crimes?

  1. Only the Maastricht Treaty
  2. Nürnberger Prozesse and Spruchkammerverfahren Correct answer.
  3. Only the introduction of privately printed comic books in 2000
  4. Only the Schengen Information System

Explanation

The SPT begins with Nürnberger Prozesse and Spruchkammerverfahren as Allied efforts to make NS menschenverachtende Politik visible.

Question 36Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

How does the SPT frame the Entstehung des Grundgesetzes in this Schwerpunkt?

  1. As unrelated to Weimar
  2. As an attempt to draw Lehren from weaknesses of the Weimarer Verfassung Correct answer.
  3. As a copy of the 1871 Kaiserreich constitution unchanged
  4. As a purely Soviet constitution for all of Germany

Explanation

Students analyse Entstehung des Grundgesetzes as Versuch, Lehren aus den Schwächen der Weimarer Verfassung zu ziehen.

Question 37Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

According to the SPT, what Zäsur affects Umgang with perpetrators as the Cold War breaks out?

  1. The Cold War becomes a caesura in dealing with Täterinnen und Täter Correct answer.
  2. The Cold War has no impact on Vergangenheitspolitik
  3. The Cold War immediately completes full justice everywhere
  4. The Cold War abolishes both German states before they form

Explanation

The SPT notes that the ausbrechende Kalte Krieg im Umgang mit den Täterinnen und Tätern eine Zäsur darstellt.

Question 38Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

In the Cold War’s Windschatten, the SPT highlights that…

  1. No former perpetrators ever held posts again
  2. Quite a few could make careers in both German states, especially in West Germany, as selectable biographies show Correct answer.
  3. Only returning Exilierte automatically gained top offices without friction
  4. Denazification became permanently stricter every year without exception

Explanation

The SPT: im Windschatten gelingt es etlichen, Karriere in den beiden deutschen Staaten, vor allem in Westdeutschland zu machen - exemplary biographies.

Question 39Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Adenauer-era Vergangenheitspolitik is framed in the SPT as tending toward…

  1. Immediate maximal public confrontation with NS crimes in all media
  2. Verdrängung, which even the agreement with Israel does not simply cancel as a societal tendency Correct answer.
  3. Only Marxist historiography as state doctrine in Bonn
  4. Total silence with zero diplomatic activity

Explanation

The SPT analyses a Tendenz zur Verdrängung under Adenauer, an der auch das Abkommen mit Israel letztlich nichts ändert - as a societal-political tendency to discuss.

Question 40Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Which 1955 film affair does the SPT name for discussing Adenauer-era Erinnerungspolitik?

  1. Nacht und Nebel (Alain Resnais) Correct answer.
  2. Babylon Berlin
  3. Only Hollywood musicals of 1930
  4. Only DEFA children’s cartoons of 1985

Explanation

The SPT discusses the außenpolitische Affäre um den Film ‚Nacht und Nebel‘ (1955) von Alain Resnais.

Question 41Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Fritz Bauer is highlighted in the SPT in connection with…

  1. Ending all trials forever in the 1950s
  2. The Auschwitz-Prozess generating Öffentlichkeit as an early erinnerungspolitische Wende Correct answer.
  3. Founding the Bauhaus in 1919
  4. Signing the Versailles Treaty alone

Explanation

Ende der Fünfziger: Fritz Bauer gelingt es, mit dem Auschwitz-Prozess Öffentlichkeit zu erzeugen - a first erinnerungspolitische Wende.

Question 42Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Which returning intellectuals does the SPT name as meeting a younger student generation confronting the parental past?

  1. Adorno and Horkheimer Correct answer.
  2. Only Bismarck and Wilhelm II
  3. Only Charlemagne and Otto I
  4. Only the directors of Babylon Berlin

Explanation

The SPT: aus dem Exil zurückgekehrte Intellektuelle wie Adorno und Horkheimer treffen auf eine junge Generation Studierender…

Question 43Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

The Protest der Sechzigerjahre, in SPT framing, leads to…

  1. Direct confrontation with the ‘Grauen’ of NS Correct answer.
  2. Automatic forgiveness without historical discussion
  3. Abolition of all universities
  4. Return to Kaiserreich monarchy

Explanation

The SPT: Der Protest der Sechzigerjahre führt zur direkten Konfrontation mit dem ‚Grauen‘ des NS.

Question 44Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Which diplomatic gesture does the SPT link to the changed political climate under the sozialliberale Koalition?

  1. The Kniefall von Warschau Correct answer.
  2. The foundation of the Bauhaus
  3. The Ruhr occupation of 1923
  4. The proclamation of the Kaiserreich in 1871

Explanation

With the Wahlsieg der sozialliberalen Koalition und dem Kniefall von Warschau, verändertes politisches Klima appears also in official diplomacy.

Question 45Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Basiswissen for Schwerpunkt II includes Allied Politik from…

  1. Only 1989 onward
  2. Potsdamer Konferenz to the foundation of the two German states - democratisation and Entnazifizierung Correct answer.
  3. Only the Congress of Vienna
  4. Only EU fiscal compact negotiations

Explanation

Basiswissen: Politik der Alliierten zur Demokratisierung und Entnazifizierung … von der Potsdamer Konferenz bis zur Gründung der beiden deutschen Staaten.

Question 46Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

The chronological horizon emphasised for Germany in the Cold War within Basiswissen runs roughly…

  1. From the Nachkriegszeit to 1970 Correct answer.
  2. Only from 1990 to 2000
  3. Only the year 1914
  4. Only prehistoric archaeology

Explanation

Basiswissen: Überblick über die Geschichte Deutschlands im Rahmen der Entwicklung des Kalten Krieges von der Nachkriegszeit bis 1970.

Question 47Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Placing NS confrontation in Cold War context means recognising that…

  1. Geopolitical rivalry reshaped incentives for justice, careers, and memory politics in East and West Correct answer.
  2. The Cold War is unrelated to memory politics
  3. Only weather patterns explain trial outcomes
  4. Allied occupation ended in 1919

Explanation

Competences include locating Auseinandersetzung mit dem Nationalsozialismus in the Kalten Krieges context - geopolitics alters Vergangenheitspolitik.

Question 48Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Nuremberg trials in this Schwerpunkt function primarily as…

  1. Evidence that memory politics ended in 1946 with no later debates
  2. An early Allied judicial attempt to expose and judge major NS crimes, opening longer Aufarbeitung conflicts Correct answer.
  3. A Weimar cultural festival
  4. A 19th-century customs union meeting

Explanation

Nuremberg is a starting point for Allied confrontation with NS crimes; later SPT narrative shows unfinished, contested Aufarbeitung beyond 1946.

Question 49Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

Why does the SPT treat the Israel agreement as not simply ending Verdrängung?

  1. To show that diplomatic Wiedergutmachung steps and societal Verdrängung tendencies can coexist and require nuanced judgement Correct answer.
  2. To claim Israel relations never existed
  3. To argue that films alone determine foreign policy
  4. To prove Adenauer banned all diplomacy

Explanation

The SPT’s phrasing - Verdrängung tendency an der auch das Abkommen mit Israel letztlich nichts ändert - pushes nuanced analysis of diplomacy vs societal memory culture.

Question 50Weimar democracy, postwar reckoning and public memory

The Nacht und Nebel affair is useful as a case study because it links…

  1. Film reception, Außenpolitik, and Erinnerungspolitik in the Adenauer era Correct answer.
  2. Only medieval manuscript illumination
  3. Only 1923 hyperinflation mathematics
  4. Only 1990 Treuhand auctions

Explanation

The SPT situates the 1955 Resnais film affair within Adenauer-era society between Verdrängung and Neuanfang, as an außenpolitische Affäre.