Professor Brophy
History 102

Discussion Section on the Second World War

1.  From the documents read this week, how can we characterize the relationship between the military and home fronts?  

2. From such documents as Churchill, Grossmann, Marchant, and Latour, what can we say about rhetoric of war reportage?

3.  What light does Primo Levi shed on the process in which death camps dehumanized prisoners?  Define Levi’s categories of the drowned and the saved.

5.  How does Kuribayashi’s account affect historians’ interpretations of atomic warfare?