History A-Level
Dual state and party structures
What Dual state and party structures means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Dual state and party structures
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Traditional state institutions coexisted with party organisations, creating overlapping responsibilities and rivalries as Hitler often allowed both to operate.
Topics that use Dual state and party structures
- Paper 3, Option 37.2: Germany, 1871–1990: united, divided and reunited - 3 A new Reich, 1933–35 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Charismatic authority and personal rule
- Gleichschaltung
- Night of the Long Knives
- Racial exclusion and persecution
- Volksgemeinschaft
- DAF
- Führer
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