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Quick questions on Evaluating primary sources (AO2): the WJEC source question - WJEC A-Level History
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Imagine a 1936 Nazi poster celebrating full employment and national revival, issued by Goebbels's propaganda ministry for a mass German audience. Its provenance immediately shapes its value: as an official product designed to persuade, it cannot be trusted as a neutral record of economic reality, and my own knowledge tells me that the apparent recovery rested heavily on rearmament and concealed unemployment (women and Jews removed from the figures). Its triumphant tone confirms its propagandist purpose.
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What three elements make up provenance? [3 marks]
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Why is a propaganda source still valuable? [2 marks]
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Assess the value of a Nazi propaganda poster to a historian studying Nazi control. [20 marks]
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