How do women experience war? How are women’s experiences of war different from those of men?
Please be as specific and give as much details.
Write complete paragraphs with specific details.Writing Assignment:
Using Vassiltchikov, Berlin Diaries:
1. Write 2 paragraphs in response to these questions:
How do women experience war? How are women’s experiences of war different from those of men? In what ways did a person’s class background determine his or her experiences of war in World War II? (What is Missie’s class background?) How were the experiences of civilians (both men and women) different from those of soldiers?
2. Write 1 pargraph in response to these questions:
In what ways is this first hand account a valuable document for historians? What does it tell us about World War II that we might not have learned elsewhere? What are the limitations of this document?
Using Audry, Oral History (pdf)
3. Write 1 paragraph in which you answer some of the same questions posed in 1. above.
4. Write 1 paragraph in response to these questions:
In what ways is this first hand account a useful document for historians? What does it tell us about French women in the 20th century that we might not have learned elsewhere? What are the limitations of this document?






