essay about “how was like to live in Germany in the decades following the war?”

In this five-page essay, you are to analyze “The Man Outside” and “The Marriage of Maria Braun” as artifacts of the post-WWII period. In general terms, your research question is, “What do this play and this film tell me about what it was like to live in Germany in the decades following the war?” However, you are free to select a more specific topic of analysis. Themes you can consider include: “Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung” (coming to terms with the past, that is, how these sources remember the Third Reich, the war, the Holocaust (if at all)); gender relations; Germany’s relationship with the rest of the world; victimhood and trauma; the movement of history versus the end of time; etc. Cite abundantly from the two sources. Do not include sources from outside of our class. Do include proper citations and a bibliography.