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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,
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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 didnt 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 didnt go my father would have to. Well, my father said, you do what you want, Im 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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Delete 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? |
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Families were separated
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Families lost relatives
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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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