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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Siegfried's mother die?

2. When did Holland surrended to the Nazis?

3. Who was Alfons Heck's biggest rival while in pilot training?

4. Who was Siegfried's brother who lived in the United States as his family prepared to try to flee Holland?

5. What does "sitzkrieg" translate to in English?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Alfons's experiences like at the Nuremberg Party Congress, Reichsparteitag?

2. Why did Alfons believe the years between 1942 and 1944 were the best of his life?

3. What agreements did Germany have with Russia in the late-1930s?

4. Where did Helen Waterford grow up? Why did she go to the Netherlands?

5. Who was Ab Reusink and how did he help Helen and Siegfried?

6. Who was Adolf Eichmann and what was his role in the Third Reich?

7. What was the Luftwaffe? When was it formed? Who headed it?

8. How did World War I influence the breakout of World War II?

9. When did Germany attack Holland? How did this play out?

10. What were Helen and Siegfried's lives like in Amsterdam during the time before the Nazis invaded?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Kristallnacht? What events led up to this occasion? How many Jews were killed during Kristallnacht? How many Jewish buildings and businesses were destroyed?

Essay Topic 2

What took place on D-Day? When was D-Day? How did this attack affect the German military and its operations?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the German military tactics in the war. What does "Blitzkrieg" refer to and how was this employed by the Nazi military? What were the military's objectives? How did they go about meeting those objectives?

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