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The easiest way to analyse a primary source (a source from the time period you are studying) is to remember the 4 Ws:

WHAT: What type of source is this? A letter, a picture, a diar...

The internationalist theory of the holocaust states that Hitler had already planned the systematic annihilation of the Jewish population, even back during his imprisonment after the Munich Hall Putch in t...

The rise of fascism in Germany in the interwar years can be seen as a failure of liberal democracy, rather than solely as the success of a new ideology, and must be framed within its European context. Alt...

The Wannsee Conference (Wannseekonferenz) was a meeting that took place on the 20^th January 1942, between SS and Gestapo members and Nazi ministers. Traditionally, we consider it to be...

Every history essay aims to answer a question. You may be asked to evaluate the importance of one factor, or to balance the importance of many, in an historical event. Sometimes you may be asked to ‘discu...