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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. Colonel Blobel remarked as he laughingly pointed to mass graves along a ravine, that "here lie my ___ Jews."

2. Hartl joined the SS in what year?

3. What year did Hitler write "Mein Kampf" containing his new Europe concept based on racial theories?

4. All of these were within a 200 hundred mile radius of where?

5. Besides, Suchomel, who else does the author mention as defending that Stangl did not carry a gun, but a small whip only?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was done in euthanasia institutes after T4 was officially stopped by Hitler?

2. Why did Stangl stop in Chelm before going on to Sobibor?

3. How did Professor Mayer end up writing the opinion about Catholic Church opposition to euthanasia?

4. What was the significance of placing all four death camps in Poland?

5. What did the Preface explain about why the author was doing this biography?

6. How did Stanislaw Szmajzner describe the Sobibor camp set-up?

7. How did the Nazi plans for "Final Solution" come to be during the invasion of Russia?

8. What are a couple of early objections to euthanasia policy in German government according to the author's history of development of the program?

9. How did Stanislaw Szmajzner become a goldsmith?

10. What did the author learn about the former SS HQ when she visited the site in Lublin in March 1972?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the relationship between social Darwinism and the Euthanasia and Extermination Programmes as presented within the book.

Essay Topic 2

How did Wirth's two week visit to Treblinka affect the camp? The victims? Stangl? The missing "loot"?

Essay Topic 3

What did the first few interviews of Stangl by Sereny reveal about Stangl's state of mind during the initial phase of the interview process? What details about Stangl's incarceration before the interviews began also provide a picture about Stangl's state of mind and what does this picture look like? Why did Sereny seem hopeful that interviews with Stangl would bear fruit once she discovered how bright and masterful Stangl appeared to be?

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