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History 9489: The Holocaust Topical Past Paper Questions

Cambridge AS & A Level History (9489) past-paper questions on The Holocaust, free. This topic is frequently examined across 10 exam sessions. Sign in for the full topic-segregated question bank and AI worksheets.

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Summer (May/Jun) 2026Paper 3

Read the extract and then answer the question. Hitler's declarations that the war against the Soviet Union would not be a conventional war but rather a conflict of ideologies and races, and that one of the war aims was the 'removal' of the 'Jewish-Bolshevik intelligentsia', evoke…

Winter (Oct/Nov) 2025Paper 3

Read the extract and then answer the question. The precondition for starting up the machinery of destruction was not the development of the varied schemes of economic and population planning, but their repeated and utter failure. With the arrival in German-controlled territory of…

Winter (Oct/Nov) 2024Paper 3

Read the extract and then answer the question. By 1941 the Nazis saw at least three connected aspects of the ‘Jewish problem’: the German, the ‘eastern’ and the European. They had come to power vowing to rid Germany of its Jews, and forced emigration from the Reich and its newly…

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