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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Albert Speer's position when Alfons met him?
(a) Minister of International Relations.
(b) Minister of Death Camps.
(c) Minister of Finance.
(d) Minister of Armaments and Ammunitions.

2. What was the West Wall known to Americans as?
(a) The Siegfried Line.
(b) The Blum Line.
(c) The Waldorff Line.
(d) The Mansfeld Line.

3. What was the first German concentration camp to be liberated?
(a) Ohrdruf.
(b) Belzec.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Chelmno.

4. How many boys was Alfons Heck in charge of when he was promoted to the rank of Unterbannfuhrer?
(a) 1,200.
(b) 4,400.
(c) 2,800.
(d) 500.

5. To what concentration camp was Jo Vis sent after being caught for harboring an enemy of the Reich?
(a) Zeigwitz.
(b) Dachau.
(c) Katzkau.
(d) Birkenau.

6. For how long was Alfons forced to work hard labor for the French military after the war?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 2 years.

7. How many people died in the Christmas Eve air attack on Wittlich in 1944?
(a) 153.
(b) 32.
(c) 69.
(d) 12.

8. On what date did Claus von Stauffenberg attempt to assassinate Hitler with a bomb?
(a) May 10, 1944.
(b) July 20, 1944.
(c) April 13, 1943.
(d) October 22, 1942.

9. Who was the large Hungarian woman that was the KAPO of Helen's barrack at Kratzau?
(a) Becky.
(b) Anna.
(c) Violet.
(d) Hazel.

10. On what date did the exterminations at Auschwitz halt?
(a) November 28, 1944.
(b) October 22, 1942.
(c) April 13, 1943.
(d) July 20, 1944.

11. What does the word "aschtung" mean in English?
(a) Attack.
(b) Halt.
(c) Right.
(d) Attention.

12. When did the Jews of the Warsaw ghetoo revolt against the Nazis?
(a) May 14, 1940.
(b) April 13, 1943.
(c) October 22, 1942.
(d) May 16, 1943.

13. Who was Doris's foster mother for the three years while Helen was captured?
(a) Anna von Rath.
(b) Sarah Himmler.
(c) Stein DeBoer.
(d) Eva Blum.

14. Where was Doris living with her foster parents when Helen was finally able to see her again?
(a) Ohrdruf.
(b) Frankfurt.
(c) Krommenie.
(d) Albany.

15. How many homes were totally destroyed in Wittlich during the air attack on Christmas Eve, 1944?
(a) 200.
(b) 120.
(c) 645.
(d) 143.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hans Leiwitz observe the murder of 30,000 Jewish women, children, and old men as the SS machine-gunned them into a ravine?

2. When in 1945 were all German teenage boys 15 and older ordered to the front lines?

3. When did Hitler order the West Wall to be built?

4. Who did Hitler marry before his death?

5. How old was Alfons Heck when he earned his "C" status?

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