3. Hitler is more shaken by damage reports than __________ and orders impossible repairs of theaters to keep up public morale.
(a) Casualties.
(b) Propaganda.
(c) Allied invasions.
(d) Battles.

4. After the invasions of Africa and Italy, Hitler is certain what can happen?
(a) The Allies will go home.
(b) The Germans will face certain defeat.
(c) Ground can be regained.
(d) The Allies will surrender.

5. What does this bombing do?
(a) It wipes out Germany's ability to replace lost arms and produce fuel.
(b) It gives the Americans time to free those in concentration camps.
(c) It destroys Berlin.
(d) It destroys all German armaments factories.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once Hitler sees a military angle, he pushes production and Himmler offers who as workers?

2. Chapter 28, "The Plunge," opens with Hitler again supporting ____________ against Speer.

3. Who does Hitler number with Braun and Speer as his only friends?

4. How long does Speer spend in a hospital?

5. Speer remembers the human kindness shown by whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hitler do regarding the Todt Organization's building of defensive positions on the Dnieper? Why does he do this? How does this affect Germany?

2. How does Chapter 29 find Speer?

3. How does Speer's exuberance at German successes begin to cool? What saves Germany at this point?

4. What does Bormann call Speer? Why?

5. How does Speer's life become threatened? How is his life spared?

6. How does Speer help evacuees during Hitler's "scorched earth" plan?

7. What happens to Speer as the war comes to an end?

8. What meeting does Speer mediate? Why? What is the result of this meeting?

9. What is Himmler's reaction at the end of the war?

10. How does the book end?

(see the answer keys)

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