Answer one question from each section clearly and completely.   Your essay should be NO LESS than three full type-written pages and no more than four. Check on-line style sheet for essay standards.  Feel free to take your essays to Writing Across the Curiculum's center for help.  Your essay is due in my hot little hand no later than noon, Tuesday, December 11.
 

Group I:

1.  Was there a clear division between the (male) fighting front and the (female) home front in Europe during the Second World War?  If so, why?  If not, why not?  Undergraduates provide examples supporting your argument from at least three of the following: Beck, Diamond, Heineman, and Kohout; graduates provide examples from all four.

2.  Was there a clear distinction between collaboration and resistance in occupied Europe?  Why or why not?  Were collaboration and resistence gendered?  Why or why not?  Undergraduates provide examples to support your argument from at least three of the following: Beck, Diamond, Heineman, and Kohout; graduates provide examples from all four.
 

Group II:

1.  How would you lead a  discussion on The Nasty Girl in a class on the Second World War?  How does this book exemplify issues of the construction of collective memory in Germany of the Second World War?  Can we take any lessons from this film concerning construction of American collective memory of the Second World War? (FYi: Professor Juckenack ("Brown Heinrich"), Fräulein Juckenack ("very commendable"), Sonja Wegmus, Martin Wegmus, Mayor Zumtobel; essays: "Freedom in Europe" and "My Home Town during the Third Reich"; the so-called GDR, Hackeldorf Camp, Pfilzing)

2.  Did the the Second World War constitute a break in European historical development or were there continuities between the interwar and postwar eras and between the wartime and postwar eras?  Provide examples from Beck, Diamond, Heineman, and your general knowledge.