History A-Level
The role of violence and terror in politics
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The use of violence and terror, such as the Night of the Long Knives, weighed against legal measures in Hitler's consolidation of power.
Topics that use The role of violence and terror in politics
- 2O Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918–1945 – The Nazi Dictatorship, 1933–1939 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
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