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

2. In his last radio address Hitler rejects what and then withdraws to the old Party clique, grasping at straws and insisting that nothing but desert be left to the victors?

3. Hitler refuses to believe that who cannot overrun the Americans?

4. After the invasions of Africa and Italy, Hitler is certain what can happen?

5. Speer is reluctant to accept the "Central Works" under what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bormann call Speer? Why?

2. How does Chapter 28 open?

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

4. What is Operation Valkyrie? What is the result of this operation?

5. What takes place while Speers is in the hospital for two months?

6. What are Hitler's worst decisions?

7. What takes place while Speer recovers for six weeks?

8. Describe Hitler in the fall of 1943.

9. How does Speer quickly save his ability to influence Hitler?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Speer feels the fallen rulers must accept collective guilt.

Part 1) Why does he believe this? How does this support what is known about his character?

Part 2) How do the others feel about taking responsibility for their actions? Why? Do they believe they are guilty? Why or why not?

Part 3) Does this help him at all during the Nuremberg trials? Why or why not? How does this guilt affect him for the rest of his life? Why does it affect him?

Essay Topic 2

Speer spends two months in the hospital.

Part 1) Why does he spend two months in the hospital? What takes place during these two months?

Part 2) How does this time affect his influence over Hitler? Why? How do these two become more estranged?

Part 3) How does this time both help and hurt Speer? How might this change in Speer affect his later trial?

Essay Topic 3

Hitler calls for making Berlin so beautiful that no one will care if Paris is destroyed.

Part 1) What do others think about this statement? How does this threaten Paris, France as a whole, and other nations?

Part 2) What does this statement reveal about Hitler? How does Speer go about making this statement true?

Part 3) Does Berlin ever gain popularity as a city more beautiful than Paris? Why or why not?

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