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Was the
experience of war for civilians the same in Britain, France and
Germany?
(To complete the tasks on this page, either
print it out or copy and paste it into MS Word and complete the
boxes.)
Activity 1: How
did the war affect family life in Hebden Bridge, St. Pol sur Ternoise and Warstein?
Task
1 The effect of war on family life in Hebden Bridge
Table 1A
| How
the war affected family life in Hebden Bridge |
Extract(s)
from the interview which provide supporting evidence for
this statement Use the copy and paste functions to
insert extracts from the 'Hebden
Bridge' interview
into the boxes below. If you are finding it hard to
track down extracts, use the Find function in the Edit
menu and search for a key word. For example, in the
first section, try searching for ‘relatives’.
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| Relatives
went to fight in the war |
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| Fathers
who worked for the government in Britain could be out of
touch with their wives and families for long periods |
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| Delete
these instructions and add another point of your own here
- search on words like family, brother, etc .....
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Task 2 The
effect of war on family life in St. Pol
Table 1B
| Extracts
from the interview with people who lived in St Pol in
wartime |
Your
explanation of how the war affected family life in St Pol Remember you
can type as much as you like - the box will grow.
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| The
Germans had run out of German workers for their factories
by taking the workers as soldiers for their armies,
because the Russian campaign needed a lot of
troops. That meant that they set up the S.T.O.,
that is the Service du Travail Obligatoire, so all the
young men from the age of 20 were conscripted to go and
work in Germany. |
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| I
did get called up at the end of December ‘43, to go
and report on the 1st or 2nd January ‘44 but I
didn’t comply. So I had ... to live in hiding
for nine months ... my parents were visited twice by the
police to give them some documents saying I should go to
Arras and if I didn’t go my father would have
to. Well, my father said, you do what you want,
I’m leaving it up to you, if I go, I go, you can
stay here ... and I had a brother as well who was a
prisoner in Germany. |
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these instructions and add another extract here which you
think shows a way in which family life was affected in St
Pol.
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Task 3 The
effect of war on family life in Warstein
Table 1C
Task
4 Conclusion:
How did the war affect family life in Hebden Bridge, St.
Pol sur Ternoise and Warstein?
Table 1D
| Impact
on family life |
Did
this happen in Hebden Bridge? |
Did
this happen in St Pol? |
Did
this happen in Warstein? |
| Families
were separated
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| Families
lost relatives
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these instructions and add in other ways in which
families were affected |
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You can write up your
conclusion in the boxes above. Remember, the boxes will
grow as you write so you do not need to worry about writing too
much or too little. Write as much as you need to!
The war affected family life in Hebden Bridge, St.
Pol sur Ternoise and Warstein in a number of different
ways. Some families suffered from being split up. For
example, in ...(now explain where this happened and how you
know)
Other families lost relatives, especially men, in
the war. For example ...
(again, explain where this happened and how you
know)
Other things affected families. For example
...
(now add the extra points which you made)
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