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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Into That Darkness : Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Hartl convalesce after a nervous breakdown before being discharged from the SS?
(a) 12 months.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 4 months.

2. Another man closely connected with the Euthanasia Programme, Albert Hartl was a priest for how many years before joining the SS?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

3. What was the name of the special department created to handle Hitler's private affairs and personal petitions?
(a) CID.
(b) Fuhrer Chancellery.
(c) Reichs Chancellery.
(d) HQ Chancellery.

4. Colonel Blobel remarked as he laughingly pointed to mass graves along a ravine, that "here lie my ___ Jews."
(a) 5,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 100.

5. Victims were transported to Nazi death camps via ____.
(a) Military trucks.
(b) Railway.
(c) Private vehicles.
(d) Wagons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hartl joined the SS in what year?

2. Who asked Hartl to write an opinion on whether the Church would oppose the German State euthanising the incurably insane?

3. In the Fall of 1935 Stangl was getting married and was also transferred to a police assignment in what town?

4. According to Stangl, how many groups were he and others told were exempt from the Euthanasia "mercy killings"?

5. According to the author, there were six institutes/facilities where gassing took place under the Euthanasia policies, but how many were operational at any given time?

(see the answer key)

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