Answer one question from each section clearly and completely.   Each 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 at the beginning of class on Thursday, October 25.

Group I:
1.  How did preparation for war and war influence the way German women experienced marital status?  What factors do you consider the most important and why?  Provide examples from Elizabeth Heineman.

2.  Discuss racism as reflected in the gender discrimination of Nazi marital policy.  Provide examples of the differing treatment of men and women.  What kinds of behavior were labeled "asocial" and why?  What implications did this have for Nazi eugenic policy?  Provide examples from Heineman.
 

Group II:
1.  Which was the more important component of Gad Beck's identity, that he was Jewish or that he was gay?  Why?  Employ what you know about Nazi racial ideology while providing specific examples from An Underground Life.

2.  Discuss French women's collaboration with and resistance to the Nazis.  How did they differ from male collaboration and resistance?  Was French women's behavior in any way a response to the gendered nature of Nazi ideology?   Provide examples from Hanna Diamond.