Read together · one page · 30 minutes

Göttingen: what remains beneath the everyday?

For two people. Read aloud or silently. Each person may pass. There is no score, account, saved answer, or next step.

1. 0–7 minutes · the chapter

   Read “Wartime bombs under the Leine bridge.” Before discussing it, each name one sentence that seems purely descriptive and one that adds interpretation.

2. 7–14 minutes · primary source one

   Open the City of Göttingen’s notice about the July 7 ordnance disposal. What does the official account establish? What does it leave out?

3. 14–20 minutes · primary source two

   Open the city’s notice about the July 8 Mayors for Peace flag. What does this account ask readers to remember or value? What remains factual, and what is an appeal?

4. 20–27 minutes · matched exchange

   Read separatelyMake the strongest case for treating the disposal and the flag ceremony as two unrelated municipal events. Point to one detail in each primary source.

   Read togetherMake the strongest case for placing them in one chapter about how wartime history appears in present civic life. Point to the same two sources.

   Switch sides after three minutes. Describe the other reading fairly before returning to your own.

5. 27–30 minutes · close

   What are you still uncertain about?

   Name one fact you would need, or one perspective missing from these sources, before drawing a firmer conclusion. Then stop.