DISCUSSION TOPIC: WORLD WAR II

General	Hitler And Historical Memory	Germany And WW II	Mussolini And Historical Memory
Austria And WW II	Baltic States And WW II	Croatia And WWII	France And WW II
Great Britain And WWII	Greece And WW II	Poland And WWII	Romania And WWII
Russia And WWII	Scandinavia And WWII	Switzerland And WWII	Ukraine And WWII
Remembering D-Day	Auschwitz In The News	Israel And The Holocaust	Middle Eastern Nations And The Holocaust
Gypsies And The Holocaust	Homosexuals And The Holocaust	Vatican And The Holocaust	Holocaust: German Memorials And Museums
Gunter Grass	David Irving	Ernst Zundel	John Demanjuk
Japanese-American And Japanese-Canadian Internment	Sex, Sexual Violence And The Children Of War	Art And World War II	Spanish Civil War And Historical Memory

Links to selected news articles can be accessed from the grid above. You are encouraged to engage in some extra independent research as well. For NIC students, the most appropriate library databases to search include Academic Search Elite and Canadian Newsstand. For UVIC students, appropriate journal databases include J-STOR, Canadian Newsstand, and Academic Search Elite.

Listed above is a series of topics connected with the memory of World War II in Europe. Clicking on individual terms will link you to recent news articles. Pick two topics from the list above. Read at least five news articles for each topic chosen. How and why has it been in the news in recent years? To what extent, if any, is it associated with contemporary conflict? What commentary might you offer on any debates? Can you place the topic within an historical context or use it to explore the broad theme of how the past is remembered?