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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. When the head of the German Labor Front arrived to do an inspection, how did he respond to Alfons?
2. Alfons received orders to do what?
3. Who said that one day the Americans would realize they cooperated with the devil and chose the wrong side?
4. Along the Eastern Front, what did many men do to avoid being caught alive?
5. When Alfons was taken to a high position on the Westwall, what was he told?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Alfons share about his departing words with Leiwitz?
2. What was Alfons's assignment following his orders to retreat from the Westwall?
3. Describe the difference between how Alfons felt about Germany during the Hitler years,and how he felt about those same experiences many years later?
4. How did the Americans discover that Alfons could speak English, and what was their reaction to this information?
5. Describe Germany's attitude toward the war by late 1944, when many people felt they should not continue to fight.
6. What happened to Alfons when the French arrived to occupy Germany?
7. Explain Alfons's encounter with a major, whose name he could not remember, but who probably saved his life.
8. What happened when over half of the People's Army disappeared?
9. When the Soviet offensive broke loose along the Eastern front and Warsaw fell, what were the effects felt by the German soldiers?
10. How did Alfons describe the sentence he received, and the work orders from the French?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Alfons described the children of 1930s Germany. They were influenced to follow Hitler from an early age. In what ways did Hitler take advantage of the children's impressionable minds? How did this early influence affect the children as they developed into young adults and then for some into post-war adults?
Essay Topic 2
Although he was very young, Alfons remembered the day in 1936 when Nazi troops marched into Wittlich, and the citizens cheered. Hitler was there, also. What was significant about this day for the people of Wittlich? How do you think this event impacted Alfons personally?
Essay Topic 3
What do you think Alfons Heck wanted to emphasize with the title of the book, "Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika?" What does this title automatically suggest about Alfons's personal reflections later in life?
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