DISCUSSION TOPIC: WORLD WAR II

Hitler And Historical Memory	Mussolini And Historical Memory	Spanish Civil War And Historical Memory	Great Britain And WWII
Austria And WW II	Baltic States And WW II	Croatia And WWII	France And WW II
Switzerland And WWII	Ukraine And WWII	Poland And WWII	Romania And WWII
Russia And WWII	Scandinavia And WWII	Remembering D-Day	Sex, Sexual Violence And The Children Of War
Auschwitz In The News	Israel And The Holocaust	Holocaust: German Memorials And Museums	Middle Eastern Nations And The Holocaust
Gypsies And The Holocaust	Homosexuals And The Holocaust	Vatican And The Holocaust	David Irving
World War II And Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations	Hiroshima And Nagasaki	The Emperor, Japan And World War II	Japan And Biological Warfare
Rape Of Nanjing	"Comfort Women"	Yasukuni Shrine	Japanese Textbook Controversies
Japanese-American And Japanese-Canadian Internment	Kamikaze Pilots	Okinawa

Links to selected news articles can be accessed from the grid above. You are encouraged to engage in some extra independent research as well. The most appropriate library databases to search include Academic Search Elite and Canadian Newsstand. Possible news sources include the following:

Listed above is a series of topics connected World War II. Clicking on individual terms will link you to recent news articles. Pick two topics from the list above. Read at least three 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?