Stalag XI

Topic: Canadian History, WWII

Historical Thinking Skills: Contextualization

Time Period: 1939-1945

Contextualizing a primary source is the process of utilizing an understanding of historical perspectives and the social, political, economic, cultural or intellectual factors of a historical period to better understand the trace or account we are interacting with.

In this assessment students are provided with two contrasting sources, and are invited to identify key contextual information which might help historians better read and understand how these differences may have emerged.