Sentence:  If Demandt's essay served as a strident <WSD>example</WSD> of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle <WSD>example</WSD> was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Something that is representative of all such things in a group.