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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. Just before a lunch break during the first interview, how long did the author listen to Stangl before telling him what she wanted from the interviews or she would not continue?

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

3. Otto Horn was a professional nurse from eastern Germany who joined the Nazi Party for what reason?

4. According to Stan, in Sobibor if you wanted a chance at survival you needed to be assigned to Camp __?

5. Despite denials, who, according to the author, was shown to be involved in the planning of the death camps to exterminate the Jews as early as 1941?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Stangl's family come to stay in Chelm for a period of time while he was working at Sobibor?

2. What was Albert Hartl's experience while riding with Colonel Blobel?

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

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

5. What was Hitler's speech about, as detailed in the fist chapter of Part Two of the book?

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

7. As one of five men with medals, why was Stangl anxious within three days of the Nazis invading Austria?

8. Only who had a chance of surviving the four death camps and how many actually survived?

9. Why were concentration camps originally set up as opposed to extermination camps, according to the author?

10. What did Stangl reveal about his orders to report to T4 and his knowledge of T4's purpose?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sereny observed that Stangl experienced moral degradation and a personality change while working the death camps. On what details did the author base those observations? Are they sufficient to support the observation?

Essay Topic 2

Pope Pius XII was mostly silent on euthanasia and Jewish genocide by the Nazis. Why? Please cite personal and religious reasons. When he was no longer silent, what was the changing climate that he felt "safe" enough to issue statements of opposition for either form of genocide?

Essay Topic 3

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

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