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folubunmi

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What was a difference between German POWs' treatment in camps and the treatment of African Americans in the military?
 
  A) Germans often received worse treatment than blacks.
  B) Germans were more restricted in their ability to move about the camps.
  C) Germans were white and therefore received better treatment by whites than African-American soldiers did.
  D) Germans could periodically return to Germany and come back.

Question 2

Examine the photograph of a black nurse with a German prisoner of war that appears in Chapter 20. What might the German prisoner have thought of a black woman attending him?
 
  A) He would have held steadfastly to the notion of German racial superiority to world peoples, particularly non-whites.
  B) He would have attempted to marry the woman out of love for women of color.
  C) He would have viewed her as racially inferior but most likely would have changed his mind after her treatment of him.
  D) He would have committed suicide out of despair.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: C

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C



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