Read this article: Petra Goedde, “Villains to Victims: Fraternization and the Feminization of Germany, 1945-1947”
Prompt (do all of the following):
1. Summarize the argument of the article in your own words.
2. Identify a section of the article where the author attempts to persuade the reader to accept one of the sub-points of the argument. Explain the sub-point of the argument and how the author uses evidence within the text and within the footnotes to demonstrate the sub-point. You should include a discussion of the types of evidence the author used.
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the author’s use of evidence in the section identified for part 2 of the assignment. Explain why the author’s argument in that section of the article is or is not persuasive.
4. Do you believe the historian objectively selected and analyzed evidence or cherry-picked particular evidence to prove their point?
