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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 2

What do you know about the second world war?

Did Britain fight in the second world war?

1. Yes
2. No

declaring war

England was the first country together with France to declare war to Germany. This was 2 days after they invaded Poland.

Class discussion

Who did the Germans not like?

Do you know why?

What happened to those people and what happened to them in the book?

Britain's role

England fought back hard, they endured bombings and sheltered the Dutch queen.

England was where America could send troops and supplies to so they could help fight the war.
If it wasn't for England we would have lost the war.

Do you think it is right to dislike people based on religion?

1. Yes
2. No
3. Yes, but you should not do anything about it.

Literature

The boy in the striped pyjamas is a popular book but does not say much about Britain. Intrigued to read more? 

Look at the suggestions in the next slides.

this book paints a realistic picture of what the second world war was like for a child. The second world war was traumatic and frightening for children, and those being evacuated had to be very brave. 

It’s 1945, and Lorna Anderson’s life on her father’s farm in Scotland consists of endless chores and rationing.So when Paul Vogel, a German prisoner of war, is assigned as the new farmhand, Lorna is appalled. How can she possibly work alongside the enemy when her own brothers are risking their lives for their country?

At the start of World War II, ten-year-old Franziska Mangold is torn from her family when she boards the kindertransport in Berlin, the train that secretly took nearly 10,000 children out of Nazi territory to safety in England. Taken in by strangers who soon become more like family than her real parents