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Conflict in Europe 1935-45 Handout for HTA Lecture, June 2011, at Sydney University

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Ken

ANSWERING HSC EXAM QUESTIONS ON THE “CONFLICT IN EUROPE 1935-45” Focus: outbreak of war By  Ken Webb Assess the view that the collapse of collective security was responsible for the breakdown of European peace by 1939. Avoid: –        Straight narration … Continue reading →

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Nazi Germany 1933-39 Handout for June 2011 HTA Lecture at Sydney University

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Ken

GERMANY 1933-39 (i) Bases of Hitler’s power (ii) Nature of Nazi government By Ken Webb – HTA Lectures – University of Sydney, June 2011 Some early views of Nazism Hitler the “all-powerful” dictator A terror state with an all-pervasive Gestapo … Continue reading →

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Weimar Republic: doomed from the start?

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Ken

There is no such thing in history as inevitability.  Just because an event happened in the past does not mean that it was bound to happen.  History is full of imponderables and the “what if? world of counter history” makes … Continue reading →

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Churchill and Gallipoli: The debate continues

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Ken

In the Sydney Morning Herald, 14th April 2011, Ross Cameron wrote a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald in which he tried to defend Winston’s Churchill’s involvement in the Gallipoli campaign on the grounds that Russia was developing into a … Continue reading →

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Some thoughts on Nazi anti-Semitism

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Ken

(This item would be of use to NSW Modern History students studying either “Germany 1918-1939” or “Conflict in Europe 1935-1945”) In the long distant past when I was a school student, and later at university, the issue of the Holocaust … Continue reading →

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