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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. Speer hears that he is considered headstrong and is forbidden to do what?

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. How long does Speer spend in a hospital?

4. Speer is ready to give in to the Gauleiters' pressure to control armaments production and ready to give in for lack of support unless Hitler does what?

5. Speer sees Hitler's life "ebbing away" and his own later experience suggests that Hitler has what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place during an evening with Hitler?

2. How does Chapter 33 open, regarding Doenitz?

3. What happens when Speers warns Hitler that the end is near?

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

5. What are Hitler's worst decisions?

6. What happens to Speer and the other defendants at Nuremberg?

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

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

9. What does Speer convince Hitler to do regarding Russian prisoners? Why is this, in the end, not necessary?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Speer warns Hitler that the end is near.

Part 1) How does he know this? Why does he do this? How does Hitler react to this? Why does he react this way?

Part 2) Does Hitler have just cause to react the way he does? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does the end come? Are you surprised by the way the various leaders handle the end? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Speer is accepted into Hitler's inner circle.

Part 1) What leads to this acceptance? How does this change Speer's life? What do others think about this acceptance? Why?

Part 2) How does Hitler benefit from Speer's work? How influential is Speer's work in Hitler's Germanic Reich?

Part 3) How does Speer fall out of Hitler's good graces? What does this reveal about both Hitler and Speer?

Essay Topic 3

A massive bombing by the Allies occurs on November 12, 1944.

Part 1) Describe this bombing. How does it affect Germany? How is it foreshadowed in this book?

Part 2) What other tactics help the war swing in the Allies' favor? How are German military tactics partially responsible for the Allies' victories?

Part 3) How does this bombing represent the end for Germany?

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